Image of Bincombe Down (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by A R Cane

This is Bincombe Down from the sister site ‘barrowcemeteriesfromsupermarketcarparks.wordpress.com’, photographed from a Co-op just outside Weymouth.

Image credit: A R Cane

A R Cane Oct 23, 2013

juamei Oct 24, 2013 00:56

I think between us "prehistoricsitesfromsupermarketcarparks.wordpress.com" could actually be a goer

Evergreen Dazed Oct 24, 2013 15:35

He doesn't look very happy does he?

The Eternal Oct 25, 2013 23:26

I love the sight of barrows on a ridge.

As for the chap not looking very happy; by the look of his shirt he's a Bristol Rovers fan, which explains it all. Hasn't been happy for years, poor sod.

A R Cane Oct 26, 2013 12:35

Yes me too. I love Dorset for that.

I think the Bristol Rovers fan was just a bit suspicious of me pointing my camera in his direction or thought I was a paparazzo! But the reason for taking the picture was to highlight the visual pollution of what should have been a beautiful and dramatic landscape by the addition of a radio mast, electricity pylons, a bypass and supermarket carpark. Just awful!

The Eternal Oct 26, 2013 23:46

Yup, you're right; the foreground does cheapen the view somewhat. Sometimes it's nice to view the past from the present. It seems to bring home the fact that 3,000 or 4,000 years in the past isn't really that long in the grand scheme of things. Mountains get eroded to nothing with time, as do barrows, and 3 or 4 millennia haven't had much effect on the softer barrows. Brings home the vastness of time, so it does.