Stony Littleton 8
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I love swallets too. There are two areas of Ireland where tombs seem to be clustered around large examples. I don't think this can be by coincidence, but nobody has ever really considered them here.

Really interested to hear about the juxtaposition of swallets/tombs in Ireland - which tombs are they? Chris Tilley has written about the relationship between dolines and round barrows in Dorest. Back in Somerset, I have argued that the Priddy Circles are located exactly where they are because that area of Mendip has the highest concentration of swallets (apropriation of a "natural" ritual landscape etc etc).