Visiting Neolithic monuments immediately before the equinox can spring surprises:
Here's Hetty Pegler's Tump at sunset on March 19th 2015
This Hetty Pegler's Tump, a 5,000 year old burial site where 15 skeletons were discovered back inthe 19th century. It has an east facing chamber and you can go inside three of the five chambers, though you have to crawl in.
It's at the top of Crawley Hill above Uley, near the Cotswold Way. Apparently the skeletons showed signs of having been moved for rituals. A roman burial was found on top of the barrow.
On the way back along the path to the main road this happened:
Clearly there's still life around the ancient burial mound.
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