A few days ago I visited the so-called ‘Bartlow Hills’ (really a collection of Roman artificial mounds) in south Cambridgeshire, which are the highest barrows north of the Alps. The Bartlow Hills are well known to me because they invariably appear on early modern maps of the east of England – road maps especially – as …
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