indian mound

indian mound
noun
Usage: usually capitalized I
Etymology: indian (II) 2
: one of the mounds of the Mound Builders

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Indian mound,
an earthen mound found in the central and eastern United States that was raised by the Mound Builders as burial places or fortifications.

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