tumulus
IPA: tˈumʌɫʌs
noun
- (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
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Examples of "tumulus" in Sentences
- He is buried in a tumulus by the sea.
- It may be an ancient barrow or tumulus.
- Tumulus of Shaohao to the east of Qufu.
- All the tombs were covered by a tumulus.
- The Cornish name means the church on the tumulus .
- The wall forms a courtyard at the tumulus' entrance.
- The dolmen is covered by a mound or tumulus in diameter.
- The earliest settlement was found in the Pilavtepe tumulus.
- It is composed of a circle of megaliths surrounding a tumulus.
- It is built into a hill and appears to be the remains of a tumulus.
- Nash loves this dark tumulus: another burial mound of an extinct industry.
- Greek tumbos, Latin tumulus were cognates of tumere, to swell, to be pregnant.
- Not far from his house is an astonishing modern "tumulus," or mound of hewn and squared stones.
- Twigs were neatly arranged in a necklace around the black-holed omphalos of each gleaming tumulus.
- In process of time the word tumulus was in great measure looked upon as a tomb; and tumulo signified to bury.
- At the end of 4,000 BC a tumulus culture was established in the area connected with the wave of migrations from eastern Asia.
- "In this parish (Church Over,") says Dugdale, "upon the old Roman Way, called Watling Strete, is to be seen a very great tumulus, which is of that magnitude, that it puts travellers beside the usual road," and a
- But tumuli is the plural of tumulus, and those are those, you know, if you go to Ireland, for example, you see those humps, those mounds, the burial mounds or Indian mounds - usually burial sites - those are tumuli.
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