This mound contains depressions which align to sunrise / sunset during the equinoxes as well as aligning with depressions in similar mounds tens of miles away.

A similar mound was erected in 1861 at Olkusz.

At high, Silbury Hill – which is part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury, which includes the Avebury Ring and West Kennet Long Barrow – is the tallest prehistoric human-made mound in Europe and one of the largest in the world ; it is similar in size to some of the smaller Egyptian pyramids of the Giza Necropolis.

Excavations at Omo settlements show signs of similar architecture characteristic of Tiwanaku such as a temple and terraced mound.

In Orkney there is a similar folktale linked to the burial mound of Salt Knowe adjacent to the Ring of Brodgar.

Traces of large buildings have been revealed on the summit of the mound which may have been temples similar to the Forty Foot structure at Emain Macha while there is evidence of a trench, 380m in diameter, which had the mound as its center.

At Warness in the south west there is a burnt mound from this period and there are the ruins of two houses of a similar age on Holm of Faray near the Point of Dogs Bones.

In 1989, Hershiser's performance on the mound was very similar to his previous year's effort.

Next to the city there is still a huge mound built by the Indians, similar to a pyramid and now covered by grass ; legend says the inner structure holds richness and gold.

To Woody's surprise, Andy's attempts prevail ( comically, the mound of salt placed on Woody's tail is so heavy that he cannot run away ), and in an ending very similar to 1938's Daffy Duck & Egghead, Woody is taken away to the funny farm — where his captors prove to be crazier than he is.

The place where the boat was found, situated on arable land, had long been named Gokstadhaugen or Kongshaugen ( from the Old Norse words kóngr meaning king and haugr meaning mound ), although the relevance of its name had been discounted as folklore, as other sites in Norway bear similar names.

The floor of the building was covered with stones arranged in radial segments, and the whole edifice was deliberately burnt down before being covered in a mound of earth and turf ( there is archaeological evidence for similar repeated construction and immolation of Tara and Dún Ailinne ).

The wooden keep was replaced with a ten-sided stone shell keep, 58 ft ( 18m ) wide on top of the mound, closely resembling similar structures at Tonbridge and Arundel Castles.

The origins of the mound are unclear, but it has been suggested that it may have been a passage grave similar to Newgrange.

A small number of people had earlier reached similar conclusions: Thomas Jefferson, for example, excavated a mound and from the artifacts and burial practices, noted similarities between mound-builder funeral practices and those of Native Americans in his time.

According to sixteenth-century chronicler Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdez ( 1959: 363 ) who visited Nicoya in 1529, the layout of the indigenous community was similar to that of the larger settlements in nearby Nicaragua and included a central plaza with temples, a low pyramidal mound used for human sacrifice, and specialized plazas for markets and chief ’ s residences.

Unlike some similar structures, there is no evidence of a ditch dug around the mound.

The mound-shaped deposits formed in a way similar to that of modern massive sulfide deposits-via production of a hydrothermal mound formed by successive black smoker chimneys.

Three years later, Hormuzd Rassam, Layard's assistant, discovered a similar " library " in the palace of King Ashurbanipal ( 668-627 BC ), on the opposite side of the mound.

Chatah and the others remained near the mound and are now known as the Choctaw.

Late in the afternoon, Huor was killed, shot through the eye with a poisoned arrow, and all the others were killed ; the Orcs chopped the heads off the bodies and piled them " as a mound of gold in the sunset ".

The tails are of a variable extent and may merge with others, but are generally a teardrop shape and are orientated south-west of the mound.

On their return in 1967 Drucker and Heizer saw that, as others had already claimed, the vegetation previously covering the mound, as well as their own assumptions, had led to them previously publishing a completely wrong account of its shape.

He or his barons built other castles at Penrhys, Llanrhidian and Swansea in 1120, together with the others at Oystermouth and Loughor, the only remains of the latter are a mound and a keep.

While some scholars speculate that prehistoric Native Americans may have placed the mound in relation to this geological anomaly, others think there was nothing visible at ground level that would have captured their attention.

Kilmainham holds one of a small number of Viking era burial sites ( Old Norse haugr meaning barrow or mound ), within Dublin, others including Bully's Acre and where College Green is now located.

" This prompted Kimball and the others to dig into the mound after sending for a shovel and a hoe.

Study of various sites suggests that the stability of the mound was improved by the incorporation of bulwarks, some made of clay, others of sods from the Mississippi flood-plain, which permitted steeper slopes than the use of earth alone.

According to Fugate, Wiley had planted the plates at the bottom of the hole he had dug in the mound, before fetching a group of others to witness the discovery.

On September 21 he began an excavation of the mound with 12 others, including private security guards, and soon unearthed a large bronze head.

Some recount that it is the site of the Old Hall and surrounding cottages, others think that the main mound covers an old icehouse.

There she cut a stratigraphic trench across the summit of the mound and down the northern and southern slopes, exposing the Iron II to the Roman period stratigraphic sequence of the site.

The mound is nearly across, deep, and contains over of archaeological deposits.

This mound was approximately high and across.

The Red Hill mound is about one-third of a mile across, and deep red in color.

The mound is across and high, and covers of ground.

It is a round structure about 34 metres across, and believed to have been surmounted by a conical mound of earth 17 metres high.

It consists of an embanked earth mound surrounded by a bank about 40 metres across with entrances east and west, and topped with a standing stone.

In a few years, the central mound of their underground nests can grow to more than across, with smaller, radiating mounds extending out to a radius of, taking up and containing eight million individuals.

The lakes stretched from east to west and divided the city in two ; a land axis perpendicular to the central basin stretched from Capital Hill — the future location of the new Parliament House on a mound on the southern side — north northeast across the central basin to the northern banks along Anzac Parade to the Australian War Memorial ( although a casino was originally planned in its place ).

With league rules moving the pitcher's mound back to 60 feet, 6 inches that season, offensive totals jumped across the league, and Davis was at the forefront of the surge.

Local folklore suggests that the burial mound contains the golden boat with silver oars, on which his body was brought across Gerrans Bay.

A Bedouin tribe was digging through a mound for a gravestone that would be used for a recently deceased tribesman, when they came across a headless statue.

A rescue attempt is made by Corporal Fairweather, the company medic, but McNess, crawling across the ground, is pursued by a moving mud mound that drags him underground.

* Kincaid Site: A major Mississippian mound center in southern Illinois across the Ohio River from Paducah, Kentucky.

T ' Challa's ancestor, Bashenga became the first Black Panther and closed the vibranium mound to outsiders, forming a religious order that guarded the mound and fought to keep the " demon spirits " from spreading across the kingdom.

Peter Dennis Vuckovich ( vook-koh-vich ) ( born October 27, 1952 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania ) is a retired American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who came across as an intimidating presence on the mound with his 6 ' 4 " ( 1. 93 m ) 220 lb ( 100 kg ) frame and Fu Manchu moustache.

The accident sent thick black smoke billowing above the airport as more than 200 emergency workers ... had to contend not only with blustery snow but the powerful icy current in Flushing Bay ... the tense drama of the rescue continued into the early hours, with fire-fighters and police officers in water up to their shoulders and helicopters shining spotlights on the wreckage and an ice-covered mound of earth at the end of the runway so slick the rescue workers needed metal ladders to walk across it.

The citizens on the other hand, relying on succour from Carthage, made preparations for a vigorous resistance ; and by cutting off the causeway which united them to the mainland, compelled Dionysius to have recourse to the tedious and laborious process of constructing a mound or mole of earth across the intervening space.

Hågahögen mound is approximately 7 metres high and 45 metres across and it was constructed ca 1000 B. C.

The existing scarp slopes were steepened and, on the north-western edge of the fort is an earthen mound, known as Maes Knoll Tump, about above the rests of the fort defences, which is across and above a defensive ditch.

The central platform is across and was occupied by a central mound in diameter.

Originally a moat of about in width and five feet in depth, with one causeway across it, encircled the mound.