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Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm is a prehistoric burial monument located in Cornwall. The cairn dates to the Bronze Age and represents a type of funerary structure common across the Southwest of England during this period. The monument consists of a roughly circular mound of stones accumulated over a burial or burials, characteristic of cairn construction in Bronze Age Devon and Cornwall. Such monuments are significant as evidence of ritual practices and social organisation during the Bronze Age, and their distribution across the landscape contributes to understanding prehistoric settlement patterns and land use in the region.
Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007480. View the official record →
Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm is a prehistoric burial monument located in Cornwall. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007480.
Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm 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 1007480.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Wayside cross at Polmenna, 730m north east of Ley Green Farm (6.3 km), Tredinnick Cross, 450m east of Great Tredinnick (7.2 km), Largin Castle (8.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm'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.
Round cairn on Browngelly Downs, 825m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.