For a while now I have puzzled as to whether the ditches around round barrows were designed intensionally to fill with water? And whether this represents an early manifestation of the connection between water, or rather crossing it, and death? An idea that later appears in myths such as 'Charon' the ferryman to Hades, or Arthur being taken to the isle of Avalon; that water or a river connects and separates the worlds of the dead and the living.
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