What's the difference between tumulous and tumulus?
Tumulous
Definition:
(a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
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Tumulus
Definition:
(n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
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(1) He was always proposing adventures: a night stake-out of a new badger warren "in a mysterious wooded tumulus in Thornham Woods", or a joint attempt to traverse an acre of ancient woodland from one side to another without touching the ground, like the hero of Italo Calvino's beautiful book, The Baron Of The Trees.
(2) The inhumation and cremation burials from two tumulus cemeteries of the Hallstatt period (750-500 BC), Dietfurt and Schirndorf, which are both located in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, were used as illustrations.