Tag:archaeological_site=tumulus
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 archaeological_site = tumulus
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Tumulus - a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. 
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Status: approved
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A 
tumulus is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Alternative names for a tumulus are barrow, burial mound, kurgan or kofun (in Northeast Asia, see Wikipedia).
How to map
Set a node 
or draw as an area 
along the outline and tag it with
- historic=archaeological_site
- archaeological_site=tumulus
- name=* - often also Tumulus, Barrow or Mound is used as part of the name These shouldn't be used as name itself, see Names#Name_is_the_name_only
- field=yes - some graveyards consist of a number of tumuli. To avoid mapping all of them, the field tag can be used as an option.
- tumulus=* - type of tumulus (see the table below)
Tags to use in combination
- wikipedia=* - a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature
- wikidata=* - an ID of the specific Wikidata item
- historic:civilization=* (or more precise subtags) - the civilization (culture) that originally created the feature
- tourism=attraction - if it is a tourist attraction.
- heritage=* - if it is registered by an official heritage organisation.
Sub-types of tumuli in use
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| Round tomb | Circular mound or cropmark on satellite view. Easily confused with a fortification_type=ringfort or fortification_type=motte. | |
| Mound | Mound of undefined shape. | |
| Round barrow |  Circular shaped tomb. See also round tomb aboveIn the UK, ususally historic:period=bronze-age |
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| Ring-barrow |  Ring-shaped tomb, easily confused with a fortification_type=ringfort on satellite view |
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| Keyhole tomb |  Keyhole-shaped tomb, i.e. a circular grave chamber with a long passage way to it. Common in the Sahara desert (example in Algeria).Kofuns in Japan a special type of keyhole tombs. Example in Japan |
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| Goulet |  From French goulet for gully, prominent type in the Sahara desert. Similar to keyhole tomb, but with the burial chamber not in the center of the circular enclosure.Example in Algeria |
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| Platform |  Flat surface, can be circular, square or crescent shaped. |
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| Crater |  |
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| Antenna tomb |  antenna or V-shaped tomb |
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| Crescent tomb |  Crescent or half-circle shaped tomb |
See also
- + archaeological_site=megalith
- + megalith_type=passage_grave - Passage grave
- + archaeological_site=megalith
- + megalith_type=long_barrow - Long barrow
Further reading
- Tumulus expedition report from the Sahara desert with diagrams of tumuli
- Nick Brooks et al.: Funerary sites in the «Free Zone»: Report on the second and third seasons of fieldwork of the Western Sahara Project, in: SAHARA 17/2006.