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West Stow Field Barrow, Kings Forest
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Forgotten People
I have often visited this round barrow, it has a serene atmosphere. British OS Grid Reference is TL806729. Round barrows were the last resting place and memorials of locals from the late neolithic until the end of prehistory. They were probably built as cemeteries, memorials, and maybe as statements of land ownership - a claim that their ancestors lived here. Satellite cremations and inhumations were common to round barrows, perhaps claiming a relationship with the original inhabitant. These barrows were much grander affairs when they were constructed - bigger, in open country, often with a bright outer layer of chalk or another material - with one, two or more ring-ditches surrounding the central mound - they would have been formed grand monuments in the local bronze age landscape
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