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round barrow

noun

, Archaeology.
  1. a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of round barrow1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Of the other non-league sides through to the third round, Barrow will visit Rochdale while either Halifax or Eastleigh go to Brentford.

From BBC

The brachycephals introduced a new form of sepulture, making their burial mounds circular instead of elongated, whence Thurnam's convenient formula, "long barrow, long skull; round barrow, round skull."

Although this type is conveniently called the Round Barrow type, or even the Round Barrow Race, the round barrows also contain remains of a different racial character.

The skull form shows a more extreme brachycephaly, with an index of 84 or 85, and exhibits none of the rugged features associated with the true Round Barrow type.

“On Belé’s round barrow we stand; each word In the dark deeps beneath us he hears and has heard; With Frithiof pleadeth The old Chief in his cairn: think! your answer thought needeth.”

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