Barrows Sentence Examples

This spawn is sometimes so profuse that it is pulled out of the beds in enormous masses and carted away in barrows.

By being struck by barrows, by falling over packages, &c., on station platforms .

Barrows are numerous.

Barrows of the Saxon period are numerous in Wirksworth hundred and the Bakewell district, among the most remarkable being White-low near Winster and Bower's-low near Tissington.

The most remarkable consist of long avenues of menhirs or standing stones; but there is also a profusion of other erections, such as dolmens and barrows, throughout the whole district.

East of the Maeotis, especially along the river Kuban, are many groups of barrows showing the same culture as those of Gerrhus but in a purer form.

East of the Maeotis on the Kuban we have many barrows; the most interesting are the groups called the Seven Brothers, and those of Karagodeuashkh, Kostromskaya, Ul and Kelermes, the latter remarkable for objects of Assyrian style, the others for the enormous slaughter of horses; on the Ul were four hundred in one grave.

By the North Road, south of the town, is a row of six large barrows, considered to be of Danish construction.

The original inhabitants were Picts, evidence of whose occupation still exists in numerous weems or underground houses, chambered mounds, barrows or burial mounds, brochs or round towers, and stone circles and standing stones.

Near this bridge are numerous barrows and cairns, on the right from Aberystwyth.

Funeral Customs. - Icelandic writers of the 12th and 13th centuries distinguished between an earlier " age of burning " and a later " age of barrows," and the investigations of modern archaeologists have tended in general to confirm the distinction, though they have revealed also the burial-places of times antecedent to the age of burning.

It is to be observed that cremation and the use of the barrow are not mutually exclusive, for cremated remains, generally in urns, are often found in barrows.

Large ships containing human remains have sometimes been found in barrows of the viking age.

Roman relics have been found, and several barrows and earth-mounds occur on the neighbouring hills.

Nodules of 'pyrites have been found in prehistoric barrows and elsewhere under conditions suggesting their use as a primitive means of producing fire.

Reihengraber, containing objects of value, but otherwise like modern cemeteries, with the dead buried in rows (Reihen), are found over all the Teutonic part of Germany, but some tribes, notably the Alamanni, seem still to have buried their dead in barrows.

The sow is a prolific breeder and good mother, weighing, when mature but not fat, 450 lb - the boar averaging 600 lb, and barrows at six to eight months 350 lb.

The custom of constructing barrows or mounds of stone or earth over the remains of the dead was a characteristic feature of the sepulchral systems of primitive times.

A common feature of the earlier barrows is the enclosing fence, which marked off the site from the surrounding ground.

Usually the great barrows occupy conspicuous sites; but in general the external form is no index to the internal construction and gives no definite indication of the nature of the sepulchral usages.

While cremation is rare in the long barrows of the south of England, it is the rule in those of Yorkshire and the north of Scotland.

The Irish barrows occur in groups in certain localities, some of which seem to have been the royal cemeteries of the tribal confederacies, whereof eight are enumerated in an ancient Irish manuscript, the Leabhar na h-UidhPi, compiled c. A.D.

Meath, there is a group of about thirty stone barrows or cairns, mostly chambered, their bases measuring from 5 or 6 to 60 yds.

The barrows of the bronze period, like some of those of the Stone Age, appear to have been used as tribal or family cemeteries.

In the Iron Age there was less uniformity in the burial customs. In some of the barrows in central France, and in the wolds of Yorkshire, the interments include the arms and accoutrements of a charioteer, with his chariot, harness and horses.

Comparing the results of the researches in European barrows with such notices of barrow-burial as may be gleaned from early writings, we find them mutually illustrative.

The barrows which cover the plains of ancient Scythia attest the truth of this description.

The pyramids of Egypt, the mausolea of the Lydian kings, the circular, chambered sepulchres of Mycenae, and the Etruscan tombs at Caere and Vold, are lineally descended from the chambered barrows of prehistoric times, modified in construction according to the advancement of architectural art at the period of their erection.

In the great plains of North America the dead were buried in barrows of enormous magnitude, which occasionally present a remarkable similarity to the barrows of Great Britain.

S., has prehistoric barrows and a fort.

Until comparatively recent times the surrounding district was in a state of nature with merely a thin coating of turf interspersed with tufts of heath and dwarf thistles, but bare of trees and shrubs and altogether devoid of the works of man, with the exception of a series of prehistoric barrows of the Bronze Age which, singly and in groups, studded the landscape.

The towns have left hardly any architectural or sculptural remains, but the numerous barrows in their neighbourhood have yielded very beautiful objects now mostly preserved in the Hermitage in St Petersburg.

Barrows and sepulchral mounds strictly of the Bronze Age are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age.

Besides varied and beautiful weapons, frequently exhibiting high workmanship, amulets, coronets, diadems of solid gold, and vases of elegant form and ornamentation in gold and bronze are found in the barrows.

Although the neighbourhood abounds in British earthworks and barrows, and there are traces of a Roman road leading from Poole to Wimborne, Poole (La Pole) is not mentioned by the early chroniclers or in Domesday Book.

There are many barrows on the neighbouring downs, besides traces of a double oval of monoliths on Hackpen hill, and the huge mound of Silbury Hill.

The district is also remarkable for the numerous Hun barrows found scattered throughout its whole extent.

Whether they were sailing the ships, pushing the barrows, driving a forklift, or pushing a pen, made no difference.

The bowl barrows in Ashley Wood are comparatively well preserved examples of their class.

Neolithic long barrows have been found to date from the early part of the period ranging from 4000 to 2500 BC.

The square barrows were also unusual in that they were constructed by digging four straight trenches, which were not joined at the corners.

Bronze Age dead were buried in wooden coffins in mounds called barrows.

In Wessex, long barrows cluster around causewayed enclosures.

The known elements of this landscape include henges, barrows, cursuses, and pit alignments.

To the E of the northern henge is a group of three barrows covering burials of cremated remains 3.

Many of the secondary interments on the edge of the barrows have not been excavated or recorded.

Iron age remains seem to have been especially prolific, with a dozen barrows near Andover and numerous settlements throughout England.

Similar observations were subsequently recorded in Great Britain and in America (see, for instance, the case of Anna Winsor, 1860-1863, reported by Dr Ira Barrows).

As in the case of the long barrows, the traditional form of the circular, chambered barrow was retained through various changes in the sepulchral customs of the people.

Although mostly Bronze Age, round barrows were also built in the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.

In the book, the barrows are described as being clad in springy grass, with tooth like standing stones marking their zenith.

Some of these barrows are difficult to see as many of them are just undulations in the landscape.

I was paid by day 's wages and when underground my employment was in wheeling barrows and driving wagons.

Whimsical containers, such as old wheel barrows or watering cans, go well with a cottage garden style.

The long barrows of Great Britain are often from 200 to 400 ft.

The degradation of the chamber naturally produced a corresponding degradation of the mound which covered it, and the barrows of the Bronze Age, in which cremation was common, are smaller and less imposing than those of the Stone Age, but often surprisingly rich in the relics of the life and of the art workmanship of the time.