Down and out

 And the hills they are hollow and home to the Fey, 

Who dance on Midsummer's Eve, 

Some people don't understand when I say, 

These are the things I believe.

Damh the Bard

Well these hill, whether still home to the Fey or not are certainly hollow. Like so many Bronze Age burial mounds these two on Martin Down near Bokerley Dyke show the scars of having been robbed out, historically. Many of these ancient monuments have legends associated with them, and many of those legends would have included stories of items of great wealth buried within. It could have been looters of any period, although more likely it was early antiquarians, and though the latter may have been the precursor to modern archaeologists their motivations shared more than a passing similarity to those of the the looters. Just described in more noble terms. Look at the collections in the British museums, a lot of that stuff wasn't donated, if you get my drift. And the moral of this I thought? Well, that nothing is sacred, nothing magical, nothing taboo and that all believes go out the window when there's capital, monetary or cultural involved. We can be quite shallow animals really.