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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Normandy Down Alternative Name: Deep Point
Country: England County: Isles of Scilly Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Hugh Town
Map Ref: SV931112
Latitude: 49.922031N Longitude: 6.277282W
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

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 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
0	No data.

4 Accuracy:

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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TheCaptain visited on 8th Sep 1986 During a 2 week sailing trip with friends, I left the rest of the crew to sail L'Aurian from St Mary's all the way round the Western Rocks and in to New Grimsby harbour, Tresco for the night. I spent the day walking round the entire coast of St Mary's visiting many ancient sites, before catching a ferry over to Bryher in the evening and getting picked up by the crew.

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**Normandy Down** submitted by paulcall : A view of the delapidated easterly entrance grave looking north towards St Martin's. This grave gets trodden on a lot, as it is not normally covered in scrub like the other two. There are more stones to be seen here, but they are rather a jumble. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Three Scillonian Entrance Graves lie in an east-west line on top of the ridge. They are all quite ruinous, but in their heyday would all be as large as the reconstructed Great Tomb on nearby Porthellick Down, and are presumably contemporaneous with it.

Only the central tomb has an obvious entrance passage which faces west. It has no remaining capstones, but the easterly tomb has two, and the westerly one. There are remains of kerbs around the tombs, especially the easterly one.

There is at least one other grave on the down, but I was unable to find it on my visit. The site is marked on O.S. Explorer Map 101 as 'chambered cairns'.
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