barrow
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9.5
- noun
- /ˈbɛroʊ/
- UK
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- The second of those, known as Winterbourne Stoke G39, had a ring of 57 postholes, and although it was unknown if the timbers rose through the top of the barrow, their arrangement resembled that of the newly found site.
- barrow pit
Examples
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Approaching Stonehenge in antiquity would have entailed passing a "sophisticated group" of smaller henges, barrows, and other structures, including, perhaps, what Gaffney calls Timberhenge.
Academic text (2010) -
And some of the grave goods we find in those barrows reinforce that sense that there are contacts with the Continent.
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Well, I know where I can find two barrows, and that should make things a lot more interesting...
Blog text (24) -
It is also near the site where his father, First Raise, was found frozen to death in a barrow pit on the highway shoulder.
Academic text (1990) -
As far as I know, we did not reach the Indian barrow, though we wandered through graveyards containing the bodies of Christians.
Fiction book (1990) -
At least two barrows on Salisbury Plain, one excavated in 1955 and the other in 1961, also had circular rings of postholes.
Academic text (2010) -
From stone circles and henges to long barrows and cairns, our distant ancestors adapted and shaped their monuments to all environments, leaving us the tantalizing signs of their long-forgotten lives.
Blog text (2) -
Half a mile from Stonehenge, amid a cluster of burial mounds known as barrows, a team of archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham's Vince Gaffney made what could be a huge discovery.
Academic text (2010) -
The ancient barrow was a burial mound used by prehistoric people to honor their dead.
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Archaeologists discovered treasures buried within the large barrow found in the forest.
Synonyms
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A small raised area of earth or stones
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7.7
A pile of stones on a hill to mark a path or remember someone
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7.1
A mound of earth or stones built over a grave, often in ancient times
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9.9
A mound of earth and stones made over a grave in ancient times
A heap of earth built over a grave in ancient times
Compounds
- Archaic
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Etymology
Barrow for a burial mound comes from an old English word beorg that meant 'hill' or 'mound'. So a barrow is a large pile of earth or stones put over an ancient tomb.