[Tagging] barrows and tumuli

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

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
> <annekadistel at 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
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