midden

plural middens

1. A dung heap.
2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.

   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.

   1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth

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   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.

   1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

3. archaeologyAn accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
4. biologyA shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
5. biologyAn accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.