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Evergreen Dazed wrote: tiompan wrote: harestonesdown wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: tiompan wrote: The important thing might be the presence of the barrow not necessarily what's underneath . Slightly off at a tangent, but any theories about why build a barrow other than for funereal reasons? A cham bered long barrow has lots of possible uses I suppose, a cairn might be a boundary marker (but still quite a lot of effort to go to). But are there examples of earthen barrows (long or round) which are known to have never contained any remains, even cremation? I guess it would have to a very intact barrow, in soil that was not damaging to bone. The mother of them all ? Silbury ? South Street , Beckhampton Raod and Horslips Long Barrows and countless Round barrows didn't have burials .Both quite different , one open the other closed and probabaly different function too . Interesting. Is that no primary or just nothing at all at Beckhampton rd Tiompan? Three possibilities that come to mind when there is no bone found in a barrow , 1)there never was any , 2) it has not survived 3) there was some but it was removed . In the case of Beckhampton road there was no human deposits primary or otherwise .Noteworthy that nearby South Street had no human bone either but there were cattle deposits . Reply | with quote |  18th September 2012ce 17:39 In reply to: Re: Hillforts & Barrows (Evergreen Dazed) |
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