(Archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs.
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Examples for "barrow "
1 Some days there were ten barrow loads, i.e., ten times six thousand.
2 Kit went to the end of the barrow - like mound of the turnip-pit.
3 Mudford and his barrow departed; and Tara looked appealingly at her mother.
4 Then Arthur happened to notice the wheel of the barrow - its sole wheel.
5 They would walk it and excavate the strange barrow , find their history.
1 Not the to-morrow of the tumulus , the hour of the sunshine now.
2 Moreover, the Watchstone is equidistant from the ring and from the tumulus .
3 We made our way to the tumulus of Achilles, some distance away.
4 Then they slew his horse and his wife, and raised the tumulus .
5 Their real world was the place of burial,-thegrave, the tumulus .
1 The first time I visited Newgrange, parking was beside the burial mound .
2 This burial mound is made of masks, a pile of clay masks.
3 He got to his feet using the burial mound for support.
4 Newgrange is a neolithic burial mound , older than the pyramids, located in Ireland.
5 The first cut represents a Danish Tumulus, or burial mound , of this Age.
1 Aye, he knew as soon as we saw this grave mound .
2 So shall I lie some day in a grave mound .
3 Suddenly I see next to me on the grave mound a crouching gray figure.
4 Now both the opening and closing of Sigurd's grave mound seem very strange to me.
5 When it was done, the adults gathered around the grave mound and stood in silence.
6 When she reached the grave mound she sang:-
7 He knelt, creaking, and reached a shaking finger down to the book on the grave mound .
8 Thou angel figure above thy grave mound .
9 Simon let himself down from the wall and with a stifled cry landed on a freshly made grave mound .
10 The conical hillock is a large near-by grave mound and many others serrate the sky line on the hill beyond.
11 Tongues of fire curled around the dangling body, and a black cross stood on top of a grave mound in the background.
12 He was shot through the head while vociferously urging the assault from the top of a large grave mound near the compound wall.
13 The bones of Christians moulder under the grave mounds , but still the temple remains as before.
14 The sun was growing hotter and the Solitaire's shadow crept slowly over the grass and the grave mounds .
15 Even as he finished saying the words the ground around the grave mounds began to crack and buckle.
16 The men worked steadily, piling dirt atop the grave mounds , and they chatted idly about who lay beneath.
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