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What is a tumulus?

What is a tumulus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
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Inch Castle is about three miles from Athy, and adjoining it is a small tumulus, of which the following story is told.
The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
One of these was discovered, alongside of a cinerary urn, in a tumulus at Memsie, Aberdeenshire.
About two miles east of Samarra, rises the Tomb of Julius, a huge tumulus about 200 feet high, rising from the level plain.
The Karmah rulers were buried in large multicompartment tumulus tombs, resting on beds, surrounded by hundreds of their sacrificed courtiers.
The cup was discovered in 1917 in Turkey, within an amphora at the foot of an early Bronze Age tumulus.

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