Belas Knap

Yes, that is what it looks like - the Gloucestshire barrows seem to be more about the journey by foot than the arriving. I encountered the Cotswold Way for the first time a week or so ago and marvelled at how different to the Wiltshire landscape it seemed. I'll always love the Ridgeway and my old familiar haunts but would certainly like to get to know what lies near and along the Cotswold Way - roll on Spring.

I love this picture as well, for some reason the barrow actually looks like it's loving it, a lovely picture of a lovely place, you do have some special places on your doorstep, just no circles!!!- i've always wondered why not, as you'd think they'd be more rollright type circles around there, a true chambered cairn county, maybe that is the reason in itself.

I know, in principle it could be full of brilliant reconstructed ones, it upsets me to think that belas knap was originally just an average one, i've been to loads and loads of the others and apart from the reconstructions [like belas knap] and places like hetty petlars the rest are heartbreakingly disappointing time and time again, maybe they haven't been respected over time because a non native people built them [ or a different people to who farm the land now] as there seems NO respect for them by the people around there [ not you of cause ], but that's all for the future with dna testing.

Last time i went to hetty it was blocked up and i didn't know anything about it, so i was a little shocked to say the least.

Really, what with you been so close and that, you're in for a treat, it's the first place i ever visited [that somethings still there], on the way to the total eclipse in cornwall from lincoln , august 99.

Where was the first place you visited?

Wow! in at the deep end then!

Ha, love it!

I lived in Gloucestershire almost my entire life and we never got proper snow. Then as soon as I move away, you get this! Not fair!