midden

A dunghill or refuse heap.

A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement.

A dunghill; a muck-heap; a receptacle for kitchen refuse, ashes, etc. See midding. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Specifically

A prehistoric muck-heap; a kitchenmidden.

A dunghill.

An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, — as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

A dungheap.

A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.

prehistoric pile of bones and shells.

(archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement