I've mentioned before, how many of the local prehistoric monuments, when freshly constructed or kept cleaned, would have shone in the Sun, making them visible for miles. This was brought in to sharp focus when coming across a fresh pile of chalk amongst the long grass and open trees. The pile wasn't very high, 1m to a 1.5m, but oh how it shone. I imagined how a large Bronze Age barrow, the high ramparts of a hillfort or any of the linear or circular ritual monuments which cover the land here abouts must have looked in the bright Sun when new and in use; striking. My photo really doesn't do the brightness of the chalk mound justice.
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