Midden

It is an ancient midden, presently an archaeological treasury.

Landfills are probably the oldest type of waste disposal—dumping trash in a midden or pit.

Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene. The Burmese must be the best-dressed people in the world.

Strange rubbish, not the tins and paper and boxes and other containers you would expect in a town, but a finer kind of waste […] that made the middens look like grey-black mounds of sifted earth.