From high up on this chalk 'desert', it is possible to discern the way at least 5,000 years of human habitation have shaped the landscape. Long barrows, tumuli (3,000 year old burial mounds), earthwork circles and the signs of prehistoric agricultural enclosures and cross dykes are carved across the hills of the South Downs Way.
A Landscape Shaped by Man
From Ferne Arfin, About.com
Pictures of English Countryside: Rolling Downland from the South Downs Way, England's Long Distance Path in West Sussex.
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