It's been a while since I've walked over Martin Down, it's a stunning landscape. It's a landscape steeped in history too. The seasonal nakedness of the trees
allows for a clearer look at some of downs oldest monuments, here a group
of Neolithic Long Barrows which cluster around the north-eastern
terminal end of Dorset Cursus. These would have been collective burial
monuments, chambered bone houses, with the interned bones often sorted by type.
There is evidence from some Long Barrows of the bones having been
removed then returned.
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