Tumulus
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Tumulus by Tony Atkin as part of the Geograph project.
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Tumulus
Image: © Tony Atkin Taken: 14 Jun 2008
In this part of the country it would normally be safe to believe that a round gorse covered mound in a field marked an old mine shaft but the Ordnance Survey maps show this as a tumulus, an ancient burial mound.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.247072
Longitude
-5.118826