WordNet
n. (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs [syn: burial mound, barrow, tumulus]
Usage examples of "grave mound".
By means of strong enchantment the Phantarch had bound the Song of Albion to the very stones that had crushed him and formed his grave mound.
As the torchlight disappeared, I was overcome by a despair so black and hopeless that I fell to my knees before the grave mound.
Queens walked under a grave mound, one young, one old, and one as golden as the sun, but they held out empty hands and by the hard flint gleam in their eyes she knew them for the old gods, the Huntress, the Fat One, and the Toothless Hag who cuts the thread of life.
The grave mound was fresh and neatly overlaid with stonesa simple grave such as the hermit would have wantedand already tender green shoots of new grass could be seen poking up between the rocks.