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Hangman's Barrow is a kerbed cairn located in Cornwall, England, and is recorded as a scheduled ancient monument under NHLE list entry 1001728. The monument is a Bronze Age burial mound, constructed during the second millennium before the common era as a funerary monument for one or more individuals of elevated status within their community. The cairn is defined by a kerb of stones that marks its boundary, a characteristic feature of Bronze Age funerary architecture in south-western Britain. Such kerbed cairns represent an important category of prehistoric ritual and burial practice, indicating sustained patterns of monument construction and the social organization of Bronze Age societies in this region.
Kerbed cairn called Hangman's Barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1001728. View the official record →
Hangman's Barrow is a kerbed cairn located in Cornwall, England, and is recorded as a scheduled ancient monument under NHLE list entry 1001728.
Kerbed cairn called Hangman's Barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1001728.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wayside cross at Trenethick Barton (7.6 km), Meruny Cross, 200m SSW of Merther-Uny Farm (8 km), Holy well at Trelill, 190m ENE of Trelill House (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Kerbed cairn called Hangman's Barrow's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Kerbed cairn called Hangman's Barrow stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.