tumulus in English
Farmer Bob Frearson is in the process of putting up fences to prevent 4x4 drivers getting on to his land and using ancient burial mounds, or tumuli , as an off-road assault course.
Use "tumulus" in a sentence
1. In tumulus geological survey, people used to adopt electrical sounding as electrical exploration.
2. The buildings of the tumulus had walls of sun-dried bricks and polished grindstones.
3. Already the pines on a distant tumulus away to the right were melting into one indistinguishable mass.
4. Later tombs here have no tumulus above but consist of a single large room cut into the stone.
5. The way of exploring tumulus was vivid, the history of Sanguo and all these unbelievable things got their own reasons.
6. A tumulus and Cist graves were dug containing weapons, fibulae, and pottery of sub-Mycenaean type like that previously found at Theotoku
7. Apologs or Fables Mythologized (1645) Winter Dream (1649) A Trance, or News from Hell (1649) ` A Vision, or Dialogue between the Soul and Body (1651) Ah! Ha! Tumulus, Thalamus
8. Burrows Name Meaning English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg)
9. Only members of the imperial family were allowed to have their tombs located within natural mountains; tombs for officials and nobles featured man-made tumulus mounds and tomb chambers that were totally underground.
10. Elaine Ling China Stones is a journey (1995) down the Spirit Road, a long avenue flanked on either side by pairs of stone sculptures of animals and figures, This road leads up to an earth tumulus beneath which lies the underground palace in which the emperor's body rested surrounded by treasures and other objects placed for use in the afterlife.