burial-mound

The sky was pressing on my head with its flying moon and all its stars, as heavy as a king's burial-mound.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

As we came near and the fire-glow warmed our faces, I thought of Minos, for whom the god himself had raised a burial-mound and fired the altar.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

Among these is the stone which once crowned the burial-mound on the plain of Marathon.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Each tier as completed -- probably each grave as added -- would be covered with earth, so that the whole formed a burial-mound fifty feet or more in diameter and eight or ten feet high (the bottom tier of graves being sunken), containing perhaps two hundred bodies.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

It is easy to see that when this custom came into conflict with the son's natural desire to inherit, the sacrosanctity of the dead man's treasure and of his burial-mound would be their only protection against violation.

The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 L. Winifred Faraday

The fishing hamlet is close to an ancient burial-mound or barrow, from which election writs were once read and the local mayor proclaimed.

The Cornwall Coast

That this was not likely to have been a burial-mound may be presumed from its formation.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Then the Kings and Princes would have made him a burial-mound worthy of his name and his deeds.

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Padraic Colum 1926

Then the Kings and Princes would have made him a burial-mound worthy of his name and his deeds.

Part I. Chapter II 1918

Presently, like the peak of some submerged land, we saw lifted out of that rolling waste the "Butt" of Warlencourt -- the burial-mound of this modern Marathon.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909