<< Our Photo Pages >> Shipman Head Down cairn cemetery - Cairn in England in Isles of Scilly
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shipman Head Down cairn cemeteryCountry: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Cairn
Nearest Village: Bryher
Map Ref: SV877156
Latitude: 49.958694N Longitude: 6.355854W
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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This massive cairn site consists of 134 cairns most of which are small circular platforms linked by lines of stones forming rectilinear alignments.
The location indicated is an extensive Bronze Age linear cairn cemetery, with boulder walls on Shipman Head. The cairns are mounds and platforms 4-7m in diameter. Four have been identified as hut circles. The cairns were latter linked by boulder walling whigh developed into a filed system. Scheduled.
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