Round earth and/or stone works raised over a burial. They started occurring in the Neolithic and were very common in the early Bronze Age. They continued to be built up to and including Anglo-Saxon times.
Round barrows
Fact of the Day
Cecil Rhodes was so rich he bought a mountain for his garden.
Quote of the Day
"The rights of man are made, not for counter-revolutionaries, but only for sans-culottes.
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~ Collot d'Herbois, French revolutionary
On This Day
1282 The last native Prince of Wales, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, died
1688 King James II tried to flee to France during the Glorious Revolution. He was captured but allowed to escape again later that month.
1936 Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American divorcee and socialite Wallis Simpson.
1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the USA.
1972 Apollo 17 became the last mission to land on the moon.