<< Our Photo Pages >> Top Rock Entrance Grave and Cairn - Chambered Cairn in England in Isles of Scilly
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Top Rock Entrance Grave and CairnCountry: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Chambered Cairn
Map Ref: SV8779914266
Latitude: 49.946782N Longitude: 6.353397W
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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The entrance grave is located 17m south west of the round cairn and abuts the south west side of a small natural granite outcrop called Top Rock. It survives with a 'D-shaped' mound of heaped rubble and earth measuring up to 11m north west-south east, extending to 3.75m south west from the outcrop and rising up to 1.7m high. A line of at least four spaced, edge-set, small slabs form a kerb along the slope of the mound, c.1m within the mound's perimeter. The chamber of the entrance grave is located at the centre of the mound against the natural outcrop, which forms the chamber's north east wall. The other sides of the chamber are formed by four large edge-set slabs, defining a sub-rectangular internal area measuring 4m north west-south east by up to 1.5m north east-south west. The north west end is pointed, formed by the convergence of the south west wall with the outcrop; the entrance is at the south east end, partly blocked by the lowest of the side slabs, considered to be displaced in its present position. No covering slabs are present.
The round cairn is visible as a circular mound of heaped earth and rubble, 19.5m in diameter and up to 1.2m high, situated on a group of low bedrock exposures which break through the surface soil along parts of the cairn's perimeter. The centre of the mound contains an irregular hollow, c.4m in diameter and 0.1m deep, resulting from an unrecorded antiquarian excavation. On the northern edge of the hollow is an edge-set slab 1.3m long, east-west, by 0.4m wide and 0.4m high, considered to be part of a former slab-built funerary structure.
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