I am using local knowledge here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulton_Long_Barrow
It has been featured on Country File so known outside The Shire. Phil (trigpoint) On 18 January 2023 17:55:57 GMT, Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadis...@web.de> wrote: >Well, yes, they're not historic; they're prehistoric. But we tend to map >those features with the historic tag nonetheless. > >I don't understand why you say that they're not archaeological, when >they're written about by archaeologists and part of archaeological surveys. > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_barrow > >Like many British and Irish barrows (and maybe other areas, but I >haven't looked at those in much detail), they are man_made=cairn, >though, just under a layer of soil. > >Anne > >On 18/01/2023 17:04, Philip Barnes wrote: >> Long barrows are not always archeological or even historic. >> >> Maybe they could be man_made=long_barrow. >> >> Phil (trigpoint) >> >> On 18 January 2023 15:48:42 GMT, Anne-Karoline Distel >> <annekadis...@web.de> wrote: >> >> The last couple of days, I've been looking at tumuli/ barrows on the >> map, because it turns out, it's the same. I have added that information >> to the wiki >> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:archaeological_site%3Dtumulus). >> In Ireland and the UK, I've also tried to tidy up the tags, so there are >> now no archaeological_site=barrow/ ring-barrow/ round_barrow etc. >> >> I've also drawn diagrams of the different types of tumuli and added a >> table on the above mentioned tumulus wiki page which also shows possible >> redundant tags. >> >> However, long barrow is documented as archaeological_site=megalith + >> megalith_type=long_barrow. They should all fall into the same hierarchy. >> This is really my question - should long barrows not also be tagged as >> archaeological_site=tumulus + tumulus=long_barrow? >> >> Even when all tumuli are megaliths, but archaeological_site=megalith + >> megalith_type=tumulus + tumulus=long_barrow is a bit of an overkill, >> IMHO. >> >> Anne >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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