Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor

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History & significance

Garrow Tor is a prehistoric and medieval landscape monument in Cornwall comprising evidence of occupation and land management spanning from the Bronze Age to the medieval period. The site contains Bronze Age cairns, which represent funerary or ceremonial structures typical of the second millennium BCE, alongside later medieval field systems and enclosures that demonstrate agricultural organisation and settlement patterns. Medieval alluvial streamwork, including water management features associated with the historic stream courses traversing the site, indicates engineering interventions to manage water flow for settlement and farming purposes. Together, these features illustrate continuous or recurring use of the landscape across more than three thousand years, with Bronze Age ritual and burial monuments coexisting archaeologically with the physical remains of later medieval agrarian communities and their infrastructure.

Prehistoric and medieval settlements with fields and enclosures together with Bronze Age cairns and medieval alluvial streamwork at Garrow Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021445. View the official record →

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