Sentence examples for stone mound from inspiring English sources

Worse, he said, the stone mound was apparently demolished during Dr. Clouse's examination, making any further study impossible.

"It does not appear," he wrote in the second report, "that this stone mound was constructed by human activity".

Many of the archaeologists and some of the American Indians who lobbied to keep the stone mound acknowledge that its original purpose is a matter of speculation.

The historical commission called the stone mound the largest of its kind in Alabama, but there was little the panel could do to protect it, as it sat on land owned by the city.

As it happened, the city had already commissioned a study of the stone mound by the Office of Archaeological Research at the University of Alabama, which works on a contract basis for such projects.

(A bill is currently making its way through the Legislature that would provide more protection for American Indian burial sites -- but it is still unclear if that, in fact, is what the stone mound was).

It seems to correspond with the appearance of stone mounds and open-air sites recorded in the archaeological record.

Across the Mongolian steppe, bronze age standing stones are surrounded by dozens of small stone mounds, each containing the remains of a sacrificed horse.

Now the only drama is in the brooding skies, the prehistoric stone mounds and the stark silhouette of 16th-century Carnasserie Castle.

Deep in the olive groves near Minervino di Lecce, just about a half-hour's drive from Otranto, are some of the mysterious stone mounds known as dolmen.

This is the case of Los Pedregales archaeological site, located in the Hoya de Huesca (NE of Spain), where several stone mounds of unknown age and function were found in an extensive badland.