tumulus

The stones, or menhirs — some as tall as six feet — buttressed a massive capstone set in a tumulus, or a mound of earth and pebbles.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Both the capstone and the tumulus were dismantled in 1925 during an excavation led by Hugo Obermaier, a Spanish-German anthropologist and prehistorian.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

Bassett said afterward that the site includes an apron of riprap around the men’s tumulus, which is in a ravine.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2015

Bassett said he was sitting on a pile of boulders when he realized that the rocks were the top layer of a tumulus, an archaeological term for a burial chamber or sepulcher.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2015

The call sounded from far away, and Wart found himself standing by the side of an ancient tumulus, like an enormous mole hill, with a Mack hole in front of him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Sardis' landscape is vulnerable to natural erosion, while many tumuli have already been damaged by farming.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026

With its origins in pre-Buddhist burial mounds or sacred tumuli, it retains a cosmogonic power.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

"In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli."

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

Here, too, in the neighbourhood of Harmony, there are ancient tumuli, which, externally, are exactly similar to those which are everywhere found in our German forests.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

The moors here are scattered over with cairns, tumuli, and Druidical monuments.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale