![]() ![]() A small cairn also surrounded the adjacent monumentwhile barrows are scattered in abundance over the neighbouring downs." ![]() It has the appearance of an imperfectly form Kist-Vaen and therefore should pehaps have been inserted at a previous page.Ī barrow of small stones from 30 to 40 feet in diameter lies around it, and a farmer mentioned the fact that an old man digging among them had once discovered something curious, but of what nature he could not remember. "About 150 yards of the taller stone (Men Gurta) and upon equally high ground lies a flat stone of spar 9 feet 6 inches long by sis feet broad at its greatest breath resting on the ground at its northern edge and at its southern, diagonally upon a second stone 7 feet 6 inches long by 2 feet 6 inchesin breadth, and about the same in hieght above the ground. ![]() I had seen it marked on some old maps but two separate books on local sites said it no longer existed!įirst record by William Borlase in 1872 in his work Naenia Cornubiae. It consists of two huge slabs of stone of a similar type to the nearby menhirs and the quoit at Pawton. Only recently re-discovered near the Men gurta this "kistvaen" or entrance grave. ![]()
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