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I only wish to remark that these heathland reclamations were responsible for the destruction of the vast majority of barrow cemeteries.
Seen from this perspective, it is understandable that the notion that the urnfields and barrows were funerary monuments is never found in the sagas.
The barrows, which were clearly visible in the landscape as 'unnatural' features, may have been related to earlier mythical inhabitants of the land.
And might the lack of earlier barrow destruction also have something to do with more extensive farming systems?
We can say that these zones saw the development of real 'barrow landscapes'.
These so-called bottom graves are known exclusively from large barrows and were associated with richer funerary gifts than shaft graves.
The two barrows with middle bronze age cremations both have shallow ditches, interrupted by a causeway to the south.
Because of the continuity in aspects of burial ritual, barrows could still be interpreted as 'graves of former inhabitants'.
The explanations put forward for this are the low number of barrows known and their emphasis on a 'male ideal'.
From late neolithic times onwards, barrows were a remarkably persistent element in the structuring of the landscape.
The use of upright posts to define the edge of the round barrow emphasizes the link between these separate structures (figure 2).
This barrow contained a central cremation and a series of burials which clustered around the ditch terminals.
He had trust in his barrow, in his war and his wall: his expectation deceived him.
In the beginning of this period, the barrows lost their societal meanings as representative of a specific social group (a family).
The urnfield attitude towards older 79 barrows shows both continuity and contrast.
