Thesaurus / tumulus
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How to use tumulus in a sentence
The pile was then fired and when wood and body had been consumed, earth was heaped over the ashes into a mound (tumulus).
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTONIt is on this summit, and on one of the most elevated parts of it, that the great tumulus stands.
THE INDIAN IN HIS WIGWAMHENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFTWe have, indeed, in Thessaly, "a large tumulus which contained a silver urn with burned remains."
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGThe monuments were generally adequately protected against this by the thick tumulus.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERThe tumulus was enlarged proportionately and usually completely covered the chamber.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERThe tumulus at Mont St. Michel measures 115 by 58 metres, and forms a veritable hill.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERIn other cases it looks as if a tumulus had been lengthened to cover chambers added later.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERThe great tumulus at Fontenay-le-Marmion in Normandy covered eleven chambers in two parallel rows.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERThe earthern tumulus may be round in outline or elliptical, forming the long grave—the Hunnenbett of popular German speech.
THE NEW STONE AGE IN NORTHERN EUROPEJOHN M. TYLERAn instance of early interment was discovered in a tumulus at Gusthorp, near Scarborough, in 1834.
IN SEARCH OF GRAVESTONES OLD AND CURIOUSW.T. (WILLIAM THOMAS) VINCENTWORDS RELATED TO TUMULUS
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