Some people may simply not want to know that that field boundary runs under that ruined mine building, or that the round barrows are intervisible with the stone circle. |
The major secular power centre of Bamburgh lies just 8 km across the water from Holy Island, and the two are clearly intervisible. |
They may have been intervisible during the Neolithic and they certainly seem to have been used for similar purposes at about the same time. |