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His bent knees fit perfectly inside the slight curve of the tumulus, and we covered him with more flat stones.
Inch Castle is about three miles from Athy, and adjoining it is a small tumulus, of which the following story is told.
Unlike the terracotta soldiers protecting the emperor's tumulus, the identity and purpose of the standing figure is still a mystery to scholars.
At first cremation was the rule, as were flat or low graves, though later the tumulus or raised barrow became standard.
The cup was discovered in 1917 in Turkey, within an amphora at the foot of an early Bronze Age tumulus.
About two miles east of Samarra, rises the Tomb of Julius, a huge tumulus about 200 feet high, rising from the level plain.
Silbury-Hill, the largest tumulus or artificial mound of earth in this kingdom was begun to be opened by the miners of Mendip, on Thursday last.
It is constructed to resemble an ancient burial mound, called a tumulus, sitting atop a ridge and overlooking the Magaliesberg mountains.
In Folkestone, a pillbox was built into a Bronze Age tumulus.
More generally put, no one can exist alone and certainly not during a tumulus time like this one.
Ana Cross stands proud on a tumulus, visible from half a mile away.
The Karmah rulers were buried in large multicompartment tumulus tombs, resting on beds, surrounded by hundreds of their sacrificed courtiers.
A walkway will lead to the entrance into the tumulus, an exploration area involving a boat ride on an underground lake that will explore the different forms of water.
The number of settlements increased sharply in comparison with the preceding tumulus culture.
In particular, there is no change in burial practice, and tumulus warrior graves continued to be erected throughout Merovingian times.
A large tumulus marks the summit, alongside an Ordnance Survey triangulation column.
The top is grassed and it is assumed that the tumulus was built from stones on the north slope.
Large settlements such as Heuneburg and the Burgstallkogel were destroyed or abandoned, rich tumulus burials ended, and old ones were looted.
It lost its superior paving stone and is surrounded with a small tumulus.
Archaeologists found those objects during the excavations of the large tumulus tombs of the Kushite chiefs, who were buried on beds surrounded by hundreds of their sacrificed retainers.
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The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
On levelling a large tumulus a few years since, at Dalpatrick, Lanarkshire, a cist was discovered inclosing an urn.
Lastly, at the base of the tumulus, there was a tomb belonging to the Stone Age.
The tumulus may be considered as the most simple and the most ancient form of sepulture.
The Druid barrow, generally a broad and low tumulus, surrounded by a vallum.
The urn which contained the ashes was then placed in another part of the tumulus.
One of these was discovered, alongside of a cinerary urn, in a tumulus at Memsie, Aberdeenshire.
The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.
The earliest tomb was the tumulus or mound of earth, heaped over the dead.
The same name is shared by a tumulus near Bwlch-y-Ddeufanin Gwynedd and a natural outcrop of rock near the waterfall at Llanrhaeadr in Powys.
The town, known for its vineyards for centuries, is also home to the tumulus of the Trojan hero Hector.
Here, however, the ramp is barely visible due to the construction of a large tumulus tomb at the apex of the kite's arms.
There are, of course, various modifications of this tumulus.
At this place was a vast Indian mount or tumulus, with a great terrace.
Mr. Beamont says the tumulus is situated on the Golbourne brook.
It is a tumulus in which brick and stone take the place of earth.
A dig kicked off at the Hacylar tumulus in the southern province of Burdur, led by Professor GE-lsE-m Umurtak from ystanbul University's archeology department.
Finally, a new feature of the Gordion Museum will offer its visitors a 3D tour of the Gordion tumulus of King Midas, which is normally closed to visitors.
In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn.
Scientists found 4,000-year-old three lentil seeds in Seyitomer Tumulus in the western province of Kutahya.
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