"Don't know, but they certainly weren't mass graves for battlefield casualties!"
well we only have a keyhole glimpse into what is there, and no idea how the site was used in the generations immediately after the event so I can't buy into any "certainties" with this. Monuments could have been raised to the casualties or for their nearest and dearest for several generations. Either the mounds were built over a long period i.e. decades for different individuals or they went up all at once in which case it was to mark something big. If a protracted excercise why would they be built in the valley bottom not on a highly visible ridge? maybe one of them is sat on top of a pile of human ash? maybe the soil is composed of ash? Would the site go unmarked?
"Somewhere closer to Colchester"
Now we're talking, how does this search zone work for you, dare to put a pin in it? Mine is staying at Bartlow.
Certainly a far smaller search area than we've ever attempted on this thread.
or slightly more northern to take in the Roman road at Haverhill;
p.s. it's a corridor about 22 miles long from Bartlow to the centre of Colchester
well we only have a keyhole glimpse into what is there, and no idea how the site was used in the generations immediately after the event so I can't buy into any "certainties" with this. Monuments could have been raised to the casualties or for their nearest and dearest for several generations. Either the mounds were built over a long period i.e. decades for different individuals or they went up all at once in which case it was to mark something big. If a protracted excercise why would they be built in the valley bottom not on a highly visible ridge? maybe one of them is sat on top of a pile of human ash? maybe the soil is composed of ash? Would the site go unmarked?
"Somewhere closer to Colchester"
Now we're talking, how does this search zone work for you, dare to put a pin in it? Mine is staying at Bartlow.
Certainly a far smaller search area than we've ever attempted on this thread.
or slightly more northern to take in the Roman road at Haverhill;
p.s. it's a corridor about 22 miles long from Bartlow to the centre of Colchester
