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Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall, England. The site consists of a circular cairn of stacked stones with a central burial chamber or deposit, characteristic of ring cairn construction from the third to second millennium BCE. Such monuments served as communal or individual burial places and represent an important phase of ritual monument building in prehistoric Cornwall. The cairn's survival to the present day provides archaeological evidence of funerary practices and settlement patterns in Bronze Age south-west England.
Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004223. View the official record →
Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra is a Neolithic or Bronze Age burial monument located in Cornwall, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004223.
Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra 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 1004223.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bury Castle (8.7 km), Trezance Holy Well and chapel enclosure (8.8 km), Treslea Cross, 750m ENE of Cardinham Church (9.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra'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.
Ring cairn 295m north west of Candra stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.