It's a fact, isn't it, that hills must have been a focus for as long as there have been people, and in the mostly flat West Midlands even more so. So you're as likely to be in touch with the remote past up there as you are at any known site, more so perhaps because who knows how far back they were trodden. I always understood that the Malverns were the oldest bit of England (don't tell me I'm wrong, as I like the thought!)