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burial ground

NOUN
  1. a tract of land used for burials

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  • Of course, "Stonehenge" is not really the monument it was at its building (whether by Merlin or under the influence of Aliens or as a burial ground), much less in its "original" usage -- rather, "Stonehenge" is a kind of shorthand, by which we mean all the things which intervened, the multiplicities of usages and all the "theories" about its origins that exist in the intervening time. Archive 2008-06-01
  • History surrounds us with battlefields, burial grounds, and forts.
  • The discovery of the mass grave in October came on the heels of a report by the Army Inspector General last summer that revealed widespread problems at the nation's premier military burial ground: unmarked and mismarked graves, millions of dollars wasted in botched contracts to computerize its paper records, and at least four urns found in a pile of excess dirt. For first time in decades, Arlington National Cemetery must bury multiple 'unknowns'
  • It is said that there is an ancient burial ground on one of the farms - supposedly haunted!
  • “Come on, now,” she beckoned and led me to a remote corner of the burial ground, which had once been the sole province of Colonel Grierson’s men and the mysterious, mononymic Lucas. Confederacy of Silence
  • We paddled a dugout canoe across the river to the village burial ground, where the bodies of these tiny victims of the fossil fuel industry lay.
  • Modern archaeologists are divided on whether it was a burial ground, an astronomical observatory or a place for healing the sick. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wilson Hall is one of the oldest campuses on Athens, and rumors speculate that it was built on an ancient burial ground.
  • The seminar is aimed at burial ground committee members, clergy, burial ground registrars, elected representatives, local authority staff, community groups and historical societies.
  • Ministers plan to grab another 3.3million from burial grounds and crematoria next year. The Sun
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