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Re: Houses for the dead...what about the living?
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StoneGloves wrote:

It's quite easy to envisage a long barrow's appearance as a woolly thatched longhouse. And very literal too.


I was thinking along the lines of the possibility of a roofed long barrow being the original home of a leader/chieftain and his family and as they died off were laid to rest in the side chambers then when 'full' the whole thing becoming just a stone capped chambered tomb as we know it today.


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Posted by Sanctuary
6th September 2010ce
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