fire-beacon

This, when correctly written, means, the mound of the light or fire-beacon.

Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Moorish blood there may be, too, here and there, left behind by those who built the little 'atalaya' or fire-beacon, over the old harbour, to correspond, by its smoke column, with a long line of similar beacons down the Spanish coast.

Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

Macbeth heard, and trembled in his moors; Gryffyth of Wales lit the fire-beacon on moel and craig.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838