Bumps

Driving along during the week I noticed these 2 strange mounds in the countryside. While my first thoughts were they looked like breasts (well I have been away from home for 2 months now) I soon realised that there were several more of them in a row. It turns out that these are part of a unique 5000 year old history of the early inhabitants.

Known as barrows, there are over 500 in the Dorset area. They are not all round. Some are long mounds, some up to 500 metres long. There is very little known about why they were made but some are related to burial sites where others are though to be as simple as defining boundaries of land ownership. It is amazing that even after 5000 years of habitation with wars, farming and buildings that some of these still remain.

I still think they were more likely the first attempts at large scale pornographic sculpture but dont worry - Kathy arrives in 5 days!