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>Slowly everything within the landscape would acquire a shape/name that was familar becoming >part of a general mindset....

Yup. Signing the land and all that?

But would that mindset already have been in place by the neolithic? Wouldn't mesolithic wanderers have already imposed meaning onto the geography, which could have been passed on to the later generations who settled in a particular landscape?

Not sure about that, but taking portal tombs, and their placement in the welsh landscape, i.e. under a rocky escarpment or crag, than possibly these places were firstly mesolithic. There is a couple of very low portal tombs on the beach in sw.wales, which surely must relate back to the sea and mesolithic occupation - sea food, etc, but are these sw. sea facing tombs looking towards, the sea or Ireland - land from which these people came from. Mendips on the other hand shows a continuity back through neolithic and mesolithic, again a place of caves and rocks, but has there been a continuous or a discontinuous thread??