burial mound

noun

a mound built over a grave or graves.Compare barrow²(def 1).

Origin of burial mound

First recorded in 1850–55

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Historical Examples of burial mound

That this was not likely to have been a burial-mound may be presumed from its formation.
The Prehistoric World
E. A. Allen
No visible trace of his work remains but a tiny hillock, a burial-mound, a tumulus.
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Jean Henri Fabre
Peristalith, pe-ris′ta-lith, n. a series of standing stones surrounding a barrow or burial-mound.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
Various
Among these is the stone which once crowned the burial-mound on the plain of Marathon.
With the World's Great Travellers, Volume IV
Various
Then the Kings and Princes would have made him a burial-mound worthy of his name and his deeds.
The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy
Padriac Colum