an ancient burial mound or a hollow in the ground, especially in British archaeology and geography.
From Old English 'hoh' and Old Norse 'haugr,' both meaning a mound or hill. It's particularly common in British place names and archaeological terminology.
Howes are silent archaeological records scattered across England and Scotland—Bronze Age burial mounds that reveal how ancient peoples organized society through their dead. 'Mound-building' civilizations used landscape itself as written memory.
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