burial mound

burial mound

noun
a mound built over a grave or graves. Compare barrow2 (def. 1).

Origin:
1850–55
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burial mound

artificial hill of earth and stones built over the remains of the dead. In England the equivalent term is barrow; in Scotland, cairn; and in Europe and elsewhere, tumulus.

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