Grimes Graves Round Barrows, Weeting with Bromehill, Norfolk
This is the other barrow of the southern tumuli recorded on the OS map. I GPS waymarked it at TL80388931. Very abraded, still surrounded by deep forestry, but in site of the other round barrow. Forestry Enterprise have recently felled the trees planted on the barrows, to prevent further damage.
Round barrows marked a new attitude to burial in this part of the World. Previously, where human bones are discovered, the remains of several, or many individuals are often mixed up. It seems that excarnation (corpses were exposed in the open to allow the elements of nature to clean the flesh from the bones) was a common practice, and in these cases, the bones were later collected to be mixed with other stored bones of the ancestors. With round barrows - the individual was now celebrated and commemorated.
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