Neolithic landscape of Dorset again, a holy well, a grotesque or three and a man with a giant....

One of those blogs that’s probably more personal than purely historic, so please excuse me if you're looking for pure history. In my earlier blog Neolithic landscape of Dorset which was also a little bit 'what I did on my holidays', I looked at some small Neolithic sites starting with Long Bredy bank barrow. Now shown below in considerably better weather than back in April. This site was well worth a visit again as its actually far more imposing than it looks in the photo, a large bank with a ditch (on the right side of that photo) that is very well defined when standing in it. The trouble with dry grass against dry grass is its hard to distinguish features from my photo camera photos, shown below are actually two round barrows (described on the OS map as tumulus) One mound on the left of the photo and one basically between the fence posts. Not hugely visible... but look at that sky! Looking at the OS map for the area there are lots of things marked as 'tumulus' (round barrows) or…