barrow

Converse of object

• excavate: Now I off back south to help excavate a round barrow on the last prehistoric dig of the summer for me.
• push: Whether they were sailing the ships, pushing the barrows, driving a forklift, or pushing a pen, made no difference.

Noun used with modifier

• sack: Whilst transporting the heavy bouncy castle on the sack barrow across the car park going between various parked cars.
• wheel: With a good hard bottom, you could try using a wheel barrow.
• round: In the first phase a round barrow was created with material dug from two ditches to either side of the mound.
• bowl: The bowl barrows in Ashley Wood are comparatively well preserved examples of their class.
• bronze: Bronze age burial barrows dating back to 2,000 BC.
• burial: Bronze age burial barrows dating back to 2,000 BC.

Adjective modifier

• Neolithic: Neolithic long barrows have been found to date from the early part of the period ranging from 4000 to 2500 BC.
• prehistoric: There is a prehistoric barrow or burial mound near the farm which would have stood alongside the trackway.
• oval: Any plans to excavate a selected oval barrow would need to await the outcome of the initial study and the identification of suitable examples.
• long: Stukeley's ' long barrow ' is actually a natural feature.
• square: The square barrows were also unusual in that they were constructed by digging four straight trenches, which were not joined at the corners.

Modifies a noun

• cemetery: A barrow cemetery formed an integral part of the layout.
• mound: We have started to excavate the turf core of the barrow mound.
• burial: Placing the dead: investigating the location of wealthy barrow burials in seventh century England.
• ditch: Our initial trench across the great barrow ditch is well underway.
• load: About a dozen barrow loads lifted over the wire.
• boy: Cheap at half the price is typical of the street cries of barrow boys.

Preposition: in

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