The earliest tomb was the tumulus or mound of earth, heaped over the dead.
The tumulus may be considered as the most simple and the most ancient form of sepulture.
The corpse is placed on a funeral pile, and the stone door of the tumulus is raised in order to deposit in it the cinerary urn.
He finds traces of this circle of stones in the podium or low wall of masonry which encircled every Etruscan tumulus or outside tomb, and a remarkable example in the mounds of the Horatii and Curiatii on the Appian Way at Rome.
One was found on a slab belonging to the covering of a gallery in the inside of a tomb in the island of Seeland, and another on one of the blocks of stone surrounding a tumulus in the island of Laaland.
The mound or tumulus was in all likelihood a moot-hill, where justice was dispensed and the chieftains of the district were elected.
Mont St. Michel at Carnac is another example of a pagan tumulus dedicated to a Christian saint; and, as Sir John Rhys says, the Archangel Michael appears in more places than one in Celtic lands as the supplanter of the dark powers.
There is this second curious fact connected with the tumulus of Gavrinis.
Beside a tomb of the early bronze age at the bottom of a large tumulus near Mammarloef, in Skane, Dr.
This is Stoney Littleton, a large Celtic tumulus composed of masonry, but now entirely overgrown with brushwood.
The parish once contained a remarkably fine tumulus of masonry, said to have been one of the finest in Britain, in the chambers of which skeletons have been discovered.
The rhyming inscription round the arch of the canopy is, Sis testis Xte quod non tumulus iacet iste corpus ut ornetur, sed spiritus ut memoretur.
Duke, of Lake, near Salisbury, had a celt of this character, found in a tumulus in that parish.
It was found alongside of a human skeleton, in a rudely-vaulted chamber in a large tumuluson the shore of Broadford Bay, Isle of Skye.
The most remarkable is that which was discovered in a tumulus at Broad Down,[2201] near Honiton, by the Rev.
Carnac has another ancient monument in the tumulus of Mont St. Michel, which, like other elevations bearing the same name, is a sky-nearing little peak of land which supposedly formed a firm earthly foothold for the archangel.
Not far off is a tumulus and another dolmen known as Dol-er-Groh, an enormous stone table or altar.
The tumulus and the churchyard were at this time competing as receptacles for the dead--the tumulus as a heathen, the churchyard as a Christian place of rest.
A tumulus was raised over a Saxon chief in the time, and with the permission, of Ambrosius.
To this tumulus especial consideration and sanctity have long been attached.
When these two reached the foot of the tumulus they stood still and stared upwards.
For a moment the child hesitated, and in that moment Dion popped the remains of their lunch into his coat pockets; then slowly he walked to the side of the tumulus by which he had come up.
Athenians who had perished in the battle were buried on the field, and over their remains a tumulus or mound was erected, which may still be seen about half a mile from the sea.
But there is a tumulus on the banks of the Boyne, between Drogheda and Slane, which in its passages, domed chambers, and general dimensions, may find some affinity with the Sarde Noraghe.
We have, indeed, in Thessaly, "a large tumulus which contained a silver urn with burned remains.
Nikolaïdes, during his one day's residence in the Plain of Troy in the year 1867, still found the tumulus of Antilochus near the Scamander, for he speaks of it in his work published in the same year.
The Tumulus of Æsyetes is in the central foreground, in front of the wretched little village of Kum-koï.
There is a hillock or tumulus near Bishopton, and a large hill near Billingham, both of which used in former time to be "haunted by fairies.
B] In "Beowulf" a chamberedtumulus is described, in the recesses of which were treasures watched over for three hundred years by a dragon.
The chambered tumulus at Luckington is spoken of as the Giant's Caves, and that at Nempnet in Somersetshire as the Fairy's Toot.
Ablow Field covered 40 acres of unenclosed ground near Graiseley Brook, and the tumulus once occupied the site now covered by St. Paul's Church.
It is therefore difficult to say whether the low here was a prehistoric tumulus or a battle mound.
The years, the centuries, the cycles are absolutely nothing; it is only a moment since this tumulus was raised; in a thousand years it will still be only a moment.
Because the idea of time has left my mind--if ever it had any hold on it--to me the man interred in the tumulus is living now as I live.
It is sadder to look at than the grass-grown tumulus I used to sit by, because it is a personality, and also on account of the extreme folly of our human race ever destroying our greatest.
The mythologic legend and traditionary story have shared the same fate, through the influence of the one cause, which has been experienced by the sepulchral tumulus and the ancient encampment under the operations of the other.
After the battle, some of Han Hsin's officers came to him and said: "In the ART OF WAR we are told to have a hill or tumulus on the right rear, and a river or marsh on the left front.
Until recently, there was an ancient British tumulus by the side of the highway from Darwen to Bolton, where the road passes through the domains of White Hall and Low Hill.
A giantess wished to remove a tumulusor Kæmpehøi from Vordingborg to Møen.
Their homes are chiefly placed by tradition in the tumuli or barrows to which we have before referred; and at times a tumulus is seen as standing on four pillars, while the Underjordiske dance underneath and drink ale and mead.
There is a tumulus or barrow between Viborg and Holstebro.
At Queen Thyra's tumulus there was once a spring of water which sprung up, it is related as evidence of her purity.
The tumulus is 25 feet high, and covers a fine gallery 40 feet long, the stones of which bear the markings alluded to.
The Gallery of Gavr'inis Nowhere are these mysterious markings so well exemplified as in the wonderful tumulus of Gavr'inis.
A very good specimen from the tumulus at Saint George is illustrated in Fig.
Plain vessels of this shape were obtained from the tumulus at Saint George.
The Saint George tumulus furnished a number of vessels with smooth, unpainted surfaces, very similar in form and size to the coiled vessels.
The most notable collection of this coiled ware ever yet made in any one locality is from a dwelling-site tumulus near Saint George, Utah, nearly three hundred miles west of the Rio Mancos.
From the tumulus at Saint George we have a very excellent example of pitcher, which is shown in Fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumulus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
