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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of round barrow¹

First recorded in 1865–70

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."

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

“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.”

From Project Gutenberg