Wiktionary
n. A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
WordNet
n. (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs [syn: grave mound, barrow, tumulus]
Usage examples of "burial mound".
I hid by a burial mound, and the Spirit of the Mound told me of a terrible danger to my tribe.
As for the burial mound incident, I could cross-examine him for a month, and I could not get across to the board what you just told me and what I believe.
If his theory was right, then somewhere in these godforsook green islands was a burial mound, built up higher than the village mounds, using white sand, and one sign of it would be traces of canals out to open water, like some he had seen already, up the coast.
He had mistaken a canopy of grayleaves for the ceiling of the burial mound.
On that occasion, Kalten, Bevier and Tynian had been recovering from their encounter with the monstrous thing which had emerged from the burial mound at the north end of Lake Randera, but now they were wholly restored and able to ride at a gallop.
They were led to the burial mound of their kinsmen and made to stand in ranks before it.
She had also stirred his interest in the burial mound and he made up his mind to have a good look at it at the first convenient moment.
It grew larger as he advanced, becoming the imposing burial mound that befitted a famous warrior king.
Panic surged through him as his eyes took in the scene on the slope of the closest burial mound.
Perhaps there is another, more gentle world just beneath ours, and its entrance lies somewhere within the ancient burial mound.
The trench, and the burial mound that marked where the trench had been, had moved on for a considerable serpentine distance.