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Re: Hillforts & Barrows
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thesweetcheat wrote:
tiompan wrote:
The Eternal wrote:
A healthy respect for the dead, by superstition, is what it was.


But what if there were no dead , as is often the case in BA barrows and sometimes earlier Neolithic barrows ?


I guess that wouldn't have always been apparent though. You might assume the presence of bodies in a barrow, even if there aren't any.


Not if you belonged to a culture that for millenia would recognise that many barrows and deposition sites did not have human remains in them .


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Posted by tiompan
16th September 2012ce
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