hill-digger

(hil’dig’ér), n. One who digs into hills or sepulchral mounds or barrows in search of buried treasure. Our Norfolk barrows have all been explored and rifled. The hill-diggers of the fifteenth century did their work most effectually: they left nothing for that rabid band of monomaniacs of our own time. A, Je opp, Nineteenth Century, X XI. 56.