Hillforts & Barrows

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tiompan Sep 16, 2012 22:30:39
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The Eternal wrote:
A healthy respect for the dead, by superstition, is what it was.
But what if there were no dead , as is often the case in BA barrows and sometimes earlier Neolithic barrows ?
I guess that wouldn't have always been apparent though. You might assume the presence of bodies in a barrow, even if there aren't any.
Not if you belonged to a culture that for millenia would recognise that many barrows and deposition sites did not have human remains in them .

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thesweetcheat Sep 16, 2012 22:39:26
Replying to tiompan

tiompan wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
I guess that wouldn't have always been apparent though. You might assume the presence of bodies in a barrow, even if there aren't any.
Not if you belonged to a culture that for millenia would recognise that many barrows and deposition sites did not have human remains in them .
Yeah, that's true. But it still might not be apparent whether a particular barrow had a body in it, even if you knew that some did and some didn't. Unless there's an obvious way of knowing?