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Mound (disambiguation)
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A mound is an artificial heap or pile, especially of earth, rocks, or sand.
Look up mound in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mound and Mounds may also refer to:
Places
- Mound, Louisiana, United States
- Mound, Minnesota, United States
- Mound, Texas, United States
- Mound, West Virginia
- Mound Creek, a stream in Minnesota
- Mounds, Illinois, United States
- Mounds, Oklahoma, United States
- The Mound, a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, linking the Old Town and the New Town
- The Mound railway station, a former station in northern Scotland
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Mound, a fictional entity in the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock
- The Mound (novella), a 1940 work by H. P. Lovecraft
Archaeology
- Earthworks (archaeology) – General term to describe artificial changes in land level in history and pre-history
- Platform mound – Earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity
- tumulus – Mound of earth and stones raised over graves
- Barrow (archaeology) or kurgan – burial mounds, and other archaeological earthworks, commonly, "long barrows" and "round barrows"
Other uses
- The Mound or Marble Arch Mound, former artificial hill in London
- Mound Laboratories, a nuclear laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio that was a part of the Manhattan Project
- Mounds (candy), a candy bar
- Pitcher's mound, a raised surface on a baseball diamond from which pitches are thrown
See also
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