(Archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs.
Mound of earth and stones raised over graves.
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 .
6 They went along by the hill; the tumulus was left behind.
7 Here this moment, by this tumulus , on earth, now; I exist in it.
8 It is covered by a tumulus nearly 200 feet in diameter.
9 The tumulus of Achilles was only a short distance from the Greek ships.
10 On returning homewards towards Eastbourne stay awhile by the tumulus on the slope.
11 But the tumulus excited more attention, and I was requested to examine it.
12 The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus , the Hebrew galgal, are words.
13 The tumulus near Mersyn, the port of Tarsus, was plainly visible.
14 While we had been at the tumulus , soldiers had been readying the beach.
15 In the centre was a hillock or tumulus , surmounted by a scorched hawthorn.
16 In the centre was a hillock or tumulus , surmounted by a sorched hawthorn.
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