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tiompan wrote:
The OS archaeology division did some sterling work but there are many examples that I can think of which were originally put down as moraine /natural which are now accepted as barrows .
This is slowly happening in Ireland, too. A lot of the original work was done by people pointing out known sites (i.e. those that had been plundered, usually). Now, folks are going around and seeing things and thinking, "Surely, that ain't natural."

Sadly, unless a road is planned through these sites, we'll probably never know!

There's a hillock astride the Bolton Darwen boundary, broadly oriented north south. It's in the shape of a long barrow, though there are no identifiable accoutrements. The direction of glacial drift there was from west to east, which should, by rights, have eroded the thing flat. The Bolton Geological Survey, from the 1930's, pointedly shows the direction of glacial drift, there, by arrows, to be south to north. (It's a lovely hill and seems to have been made by making a dirty great linear ditch and heaping up the spoil material).