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Submitted by thecaptain on Saturday, 26 September 2009 Page Views: 6143

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bearah Common Long Cairn
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Liskeard Nearest Village: Henwood
Map Ref: SX26327435
Latitude: 50.543060N Longitude: 4.452579W
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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1	Awful
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4 Access:

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
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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**Bearah Common Long Cairn** submitted by thecaptain : At the downhill end of the cairn, there is the remains of a once substantial chamber. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Marked on the OS maps as longbarrow or chambered long cairn, this little known but splendid monument on the eastern edge of Bodmin Moor is an easy half mile walk up a track from a parking place at a small road junction by Blackcoombe farm north of the village of Henwood.

The cairn is about 30 metres long by 15 metres wide at its southeastern end, and generally about a metre high above the surrounding moorland, and mostly substantially overgrown with bracken. In places, particularly at the narrow northwestern, uphill, end, it seems to have several nice surrounding stones, perhaps once forming a kerb around it.

At the wider downhill end of the cairn, there is the remains of a once substantial chamber, with several big stones fallen or still standing, about 2 metres or more in length.

Before planning for my visit to this part of the moor, I didn’t even realise this was here, and it’s terrific.

English Heritage Scheduled Monument 15145

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