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I ever took as a child and not so child was marked on the M5 journey SW by Crookbarrow Hill. So it's 'sacred' to me, because it told me I was coming home, it was an ancient lookout post for me. Grandad Johnson told me that the Civil War Dead were buried there, but I was always suspicious. I measure it's sanctity by the hurt I would feel if it were destroyed. Another piece of the jigsaw of my youthful landscape, a physical memory, a signpost, a part of it all. For me. Subjectivity is the key. Of course if my family ancestors had been buried there, it'd be maybe more sacred? I used to call it Whittington Tump. Tump, barrow? If it's a barrow it's a big barrow? I'd like to know why it was built, but it's use for me is fixed as an ancient natural flag homeward, somewhere between Exmoor and Wychbury!

That tree on the top lends it a certain 'something' too? Aesthetically, evocatively. It leans away from the West, like one of those sea-wind trees on the coast.


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Posted by morfe
30th July 2003ce
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