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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: King Edward's Tower Chambered CairnCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Hugh Town (Isles of Scilly)
Map Ref: SV90631038
Latitude: 49.913404N Longitude: 6.310936W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Chambered Cairn in Cornwall
Site of a chambered cairn excavated by Borlase, on which the former windmill King Edward's Tower now stands (There was once 3 Chambered Cairns on Buzza Hill). The chambered cairn was excavated by Borlase. It had an earth filled chamber, 6.7m long, aligned NE-SW and walled with "mortared" masonry 1.5m high. Some of the capstones had previously been robbed for building. It was apparently the largest of the three cairns on Buzza Hill and was said by Gibson to be the mound on which the former windmill King Edward's Tower stands. Russell lists this entrance grave as being destroyed in the early C19 - presumably she is alluding to the construction of the windmill. The OS field worker says the tower stands eccentrically within a kerbed platform, 12m in diameter and 0.4m-1.0m high. The lower course of boulders could represent the perimeter of a cairn, but the remainder is clearly of modern construction.
There was another Chambered Cairn 12.8m to the NE, It contained a chamber 4.3m long by 1.2m wide, aligned ENE-WSW.
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