tumulus

• In the centre of this moss stood, in ancient times, a large tumulus, but in 1828, stones being required to build said march dyke, the tumulus was used as a quarry, and after 150 cartloads had been removed, a cist containing a human skeleton was discovered. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
• A tiny Welsh village contains an ancient tumulus, a holy well, three standing stones and a pre-Norman preaching cross - with many treasures believed to be yet undiscovered. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
• This tumulus was probably the tomb of some great warrior: the horses’ skeletons were the remains of a sacrifice, and the human bones of beings who had been immolated to accompany the earthly remains of their great chief to another world We took a boat for Gavr’ Inis, or the Goat Island, and embarked on the Morbihan (Breton, Little Sea), an inland sea, that gives its name to the department. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
• It is represented in this light by Virgil 391]Est urbe egressis tumulus, templumque vetustum Desertæ Cereris; juxtaque antiqua cupressus In process of time the word tumulus was in great measure looked upon as a tomb; and tumulo signified to bury. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
• When a both is covered with green turf it becomes a chambered tumulus, and when buried by drifting sand it is a subterranean Pict's house.... I regard the comparatively large Picts' houses of the Orkneys as the pastoral residence of the Pictish lord, fitted to contain his numerous family and dependents. —  Fians, Fairies and Picts

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