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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Little Arthur Chambered CairnsCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Barrow Cemetery
Map Ref: SV94131389
Latitude: 49.946685N Longitude: 6.265107W
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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Three Chambered Cairns in a NW-SE line, The Middle and highest Chambered Cairn at SV94131389 has a kerb and chamber. It is 11m diameter by 1.2m high, with a flat top 5.0m diameter, incorporating an east-west chamber, 3.6m by 1.1m by 0.4m deep. Part of a kerb is also visible. One of a group of three chambered cairns. There were two kerbs in evidence. The outer, set approx 0.5m within the perimeter of the mound, was 17m long, missing on the north west side. There were ten surviving stones averaging 1.0m long, 0.4m wide and 0.7m high. The inner kerb was near complete, 5.3m diameter and 16.5m long. The ten stones averaged 0.9m long, 0.3m wide and 0.5m high. The chamber was at least 2.5m long; its north east end was destroyed. It was aligned north east - south west. Indications of coursed walling could be seen beneath the dense undergrowth. One capstone survives, at the south west end; it is 1.3m long, 0.5m wide and 0.3m deep.
The South Eastern Chambered Cairn at SV94141388 is a mound with a chamber/cist and a kerb, It is 6.0m diameter, utilising natural rock, with a maximum height of 0.8m. A kerb of upright stones surrounds two slabs which seem to be the remains of a chamber, 2.0m long by 1.0m wide. The kerb was 4.3m diameter overall, and survived for a length of 11.3m; it was missing on the south west side. The eight kerbstones were predominantly very regular slabs, average 0.8m long and 0.3m wide and 0.4m high; though one, on the south sie was a natural rock. The kerb appeared to follow the perimeter of the mound on the north and east sides, but continued with it further to the south west. The remains of an internal structure, a cist or possibly chamber, consisted of three stone slabs of a Cist/chamber aligned north east - south west, 0.9m wide and 0.5m high and surviving to a depth of 0.5m.
The North Western Chambered Cairn at SV94111390 has a slight mound and 3 stones of a large ruined cist/chamber remaining (2 sidestones and a backstone), There's also a remaining smaller stone at the other end of the cist/chamber
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