From our vantage point, atop an old mound capped years ago, the scene was incongrously peaceful.
When they started to clear the land, there was trouble because of an old Indian mound.
Union soldiers built earthworks to protect the complex, incorporating an old Indian mound into the defenses.
Tale Teller took the dead baby boy out to the charnel platform beside the old mound.
It is one of the oldest such mounds in the Eastern Woodlands region.
You'd forgotten Barrow-wight dwelling in the old mound up there on hill-top with the ring of stones round.
Digging trenches through old mounds, picking up bits of pottery, publishing scholarly reports?
The oldest mounds were constructed 1,500-2,000 years ago by people of the Hopewell tradition.
This short story takes place in Ireland where six thousand year old earthen mounds, or tumuli and monumental carved stones mark various tombs.
Some of the oldest mounds in the area are believed to be made as far back as year zero.