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What makes you think it was white?
The inner layers show it was turfted over at various stages.
If anything it would have been muddy grey when finished if it wasn't also turfted over.
The experimental longbarrow on Fyfield down didn't take long to turn green.
As far as I know there is no tradition or evidence that the hill was scoured to keep it white.

Hmm; are we sure it was that colour* for any length of time? Methinks it probably was, but that's my opinion. It would be interesting to see - don't know what the Highway's Agency would say about it's distractional qualities, though!

*If it was that colour, could it be a clue as to it's intended use - authors have suggested that the burial mounds and barrows would have been bare chalk/earth, so if this was bare chalk, might it suggest a link to one of those Pryor-esque (or Pitt-like) ancestral processional landscapes?

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