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Re: Barrow cemeteries on Overton Hill
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moss wrote:
"certainly goes through the barrow cemetry but is way out for the max moonrise"

Surely the barrow cemeteries are for burying the dead, and got added to over the centuries, often they are in straight lines, as if later 'chiefs/elders' are added on. For instance............ Priddy Nine barrows and Ashen Hill barrow cemeteries are both in straight lines at oblique angles to each other in the same field.... is there alignments on either of them?
Beech trees are your safest bet in wiltshire SS ;)


Quite a time period between the building of the henge and the barrow cemetery . The Ashen Hill barrows have a straightish section that is not aligned on any of the usual astro suspects . Priddy Nine barrows is not very straight .


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tiompan
Posted by tiompan
7th April 2009ce
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