They make tumuli of dung, which are constantly on fire, fresh fuel being continually added, to drive away the mosquitoes.
Only a few miles from Drogheda, and on the direct road to Tara, is a collection of tumuli which are unsurpassed in Europe or any other part of the world.
The tumuli are now in the custody of the board of works, which is taking care of them, and is having careful scientific excavations and other examinations made by competent authorities.
These Neolithic cave-dwellers have been proved to be identical in physique with the builders of the cairns and tumuli which lie scattered over the face of Great Britain and Ireland.
They are of the same design as those which have been met with in late Roman tumuli in this country, and in places which are mainly in the north.
Skipwith Common, with its tumuli and ancient turf dwellings, is also in this neighbourhood.
There was a British settlement near the little river Cor, as is made evident by certain camps and tumuli in the neighbourhood.
The large tumuli and barrows which remain, pertain to a much later era of our history; generally to the Roman and Saxon periods, when the use of bronze and iron became known.
From sepulchral tumuli in Scandinavia we know actual vessels have on several occasions been disinterred.
These facts are learned, not from independent relics alone, but also from terracotta steeds found in the tumuli and moulded so as to show all their trappings.
I asked a farmer what had become of the tumuli which at one time, according to the Ordnance Survey map, were dotted over the hill behind his house.
These tumuli are no doubt old burial-places, and much information concerning the habits of our ancient predecessors might often be obtained by a careful examination of the mounds, when it is deemed essential to remove them.
The immense tumuli heaped over the remains of the dead, show the regard which they attached to their chiefs, and the veneration in which they held their memory.
Many mounds andtumuli are advantageously situated on the tops of ridges, surrounded with walls.
The number oftumuli which have been excavated and their characteristics noted, amounts to one hundred and fifteen.
Tumuli of sepulture, each containing a single skeleton enclosed in a rude, wooden coffin, or an envelope of bark or matting, and occurring in isolated or detached groups.
Tumuli of sacrifice, containing symmetrical altars of stone or burnt clay, occurring within or in the immediate vicinity of enclosures, and always stratified.
The tumuli are divided into three grand classes, which are broadly marked in the aggregate, though there are individual instances of an anomalous character.
Still further examinations demonstrated that the contents of those respectivetumuli are radically and invariably different.
In these tumuli and mounds numerous ornaments and pottery were found by Dr.
For instance, it was remarked among the numerous tumuli opened, that certain ones were stratified, while others were homogeneous in their composition.
Further observation showed that stratified tumuli occupy a certain fixed position with regard to other works, which the unstratified tumuli do not.
Not only were tumuli thus transferred by re-dedication from pagan gods to Christian saints, but dolmens and menhirs as well.
Tumuli may already in pagan times have been pointed out as tombs of gods who died in myth or ritual, like the tombs of Zeus in Crete and of Osiris in Egypt.
The dead were no longer cremated, nor were they buried in the tumuli with the objects of their customary association interred with them to be of service in the spirit world.
Once clear of the ranges of tumulior kourgans, as they call them here, there is nothing but steppe.
All round us are chains of those small hills, whose dome-like tops proclaim them tumuli of kings and chiefs who went to rest ages ago, when the town behind us was still a mighty city, rejoicing in the name of Panticapæum.
Skulls, however, have been obtained not only from peat, but from tumuli of the stone period believed to be contemporaneous with the mounds.
The human bones, therefore, in the caves which are associated with such fabricated objects, must belong not to antediluvian periods, but to a people in the same stage of civilization as those who constructed the tumuli and altars.
Tumuli regum Scotiae, The burials of the kings of Scotland: for (as they saie) fourtie eight of them were there interred.
The English round tumuli or barrows belong to the Bronze period.
The chambers in the round and long tumuli in Denmark are very similar, but in the long tumuli there are usually two or more dolmens, often symmetrically located.
More rarely we find two or more small tumuli side by side, each with one or two chambers.
Under the name of dolmens or stone chambers, cromlechs or stone circles, tumuli or mounds, they form a striking contrast to the insignificant and ephemeral thatched huts of wood and clay which formed the homes of the living.
They represent the culmination of megalithic development, but are essentially places of worship and assembly rather than of burial, though tumuli may be clustered around them like graves in a churchyard.
Tumuli are also numerous, but only a few menhirs and traces of cromlechs are to be seen.
The number of ancient burial tumuli to the north of the ford may possibly have influenced the local nomenclature.
Similar tumuli have been opened in several other places in the county, to which further reference will be made.
Whitaker does not appear to have noticed all the tumuli in the neighbourhood.
The similarity of many of the remains brought to light to those found in the "Castle Hill," seems to suggest that these tumuli were erected by cognate people, and at no very distant periods from each other.
Three large tumuli for centuries have marked the scene of the struggle, one of which, near to Langho, has been removed, and the remains of a buried warrior exhumed.
On the other hand, it is equally probable, as the two larger tumuli are situated on the north-west bank of the Ribble, that the chief conflict occurred in their neighbourhood.
Although these large tumuli are on the north-west side of the river, the nearest is scarcely half a mile distant from the site of the removed one near Bullasey-ford on the south-east.
One of the tumulito which I have referred was partially opened by Dr.
But in tumuli such as those at Winwick, there is nothing to show whether it was raised six centuries before or six centuries after that period.
The following are the results of the most recent researches on the lines of fortifications, and the tumuli found between the Rocky Mountains and the chain of the Alleganies.
Some of the tumuli are constructed of earth, and some of stones heaped together.
The base of the tumuli is round, or of an oval form; they are generally of a conical form, and sometimes flattened at the summit, as if intended to serve for sacrifices, or other ceremonies to be seen by a great mass of people at once.
Beyond these tumuli habitations thickened, and the train came to a standstill in a tangle that was almost a town.
For about a mile a series of tiled and slated houses passed before Mrs. Munt's inattentive eyes, a series broken at one point by six Danish tumuli that stood shoulder to shoulder along the highroad, tombs of soldiers.
Drake exhibited {58} to us, in his cabinet of natural history, two large marine shells, that had been dug out of ancient Indian tumuli in that vicinity.
Those tumuliimmediately northward of the town, and within a short distance of it, are twenty-seven in number, of various forms and magnitudes, arranged nearly in a line from north to south.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumuli" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
