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tumulus - use in sentences
Converse of object
- know: The results produced a series of low readings around the location of the know tumulus.
Adjective modifier
- large: Traces of the Roman road were very distinct in 1790 in this and neighboring parishes; and in Sturmer is a large tumulus.
- ancient: Beowulf contains the tale of a dragon who guarded buried treasure within an ancient tumulus.
- small: They now believe that he was actually buried nearby in a cave under what can still be seen as a small tumulus.
- great: This is the great sepulchral tumulus now called New Grange, on the Boyne.
Noun used with modifier
- burial: A mound once covered the circle as a burial tumuli and probably had other uses!
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