Burial-mound
a mound built over a grave or graves.
Compare barrow2 (def 1).
Historical Examples
The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Padriac Colum
The Prehistoric World E. A. Allen
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) Various
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean Henri Fabre
With the World’s Great Travellers, Volume IV Various
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