*
“There was one thing.”
“Oh yes?”
“Well, two things, really.”
“These days ‘really’ is not a precise term, but proceed anyway.”
“No, no of course not… it’s just that, it struck me that the stones were conceived as shadows.”
“Shadows of what?”
“The ancestral realm.”
*
*
“And the second thing?”
“We’re being haunted.”
“By what?”
“By a shape!”
*
*
“It’s a Cop.”
“Look again.”
“It’s still a Cop.”
“Or a very big Long Barrow.”
“But it’s a hill.”
“Look again.”
“It’s still a hill.”
“Or a very big Long Barrow.”
“They didn’t build Long Barrows that big.”
“Why not?”
“It’s absurd. It’s preposterous. They simply couldn’t have.”
“They built Silbury.”
“Silbury’s not a Burial Mound.”
“No, but the ‘Archaeos’ used to think that it was.”
“The ‘Archaeos’ are always getting it wrong.”
“They think it’s a hill.”
“They thought all the ‘Motte and Bailys’ were mediaeval.”
“Precisley, it’s definitely a big Long Barrow.”
“It’s not definitely anything but what makes you so sure?”
“Numbers.”
“Numbers?”
“Most of the sites hold a lot of people and there are thousands of them. A lot of them would have taken huge numbers to construct and there are thousands of them and yet, the burials are relatively few. Even at the massive sites…”
“Where are all the bones?”
“I knew you’d come around to my way of thinking.”
“Especially on Ilkley.”
“We know Ilkley’s a Necropolis…
“…And yet, there are hardly any cairns.”
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Stuart France 
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