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harestonesdown wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: Bit of a rambling waffle, but my gut-feeling is simply that previous burials were left alone because it was viewed as either morally wrong or likely to incur the displeasure of the gods to disturb them, To throw a spanner in the works, how would Gib Hill fit into that, with the round barrow having being built on top of the former long barrow. ? Some may say it's enhancement, others desecration of an ancestral grave. It is odd , but typically Bronze Age mounds were often complex sites sometimes literally built up over generations including depositions as well mound materials . They often referenced older monuments and were also often built on older neolithic and mesolithic sites , in this case it may have started off as a typical BA deposition in an older monument then taken to it's common concluson of eventual mound covering albeit on a barrow . Reply | with quote |  16th September 2012ce 18:14 In reply to: Re: Hillforts & Barrows (harestonesdown) |
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