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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Martin's Head Cairns - Barrow Cemetery in England in Isles of Scilly

Submitted by Bladup on Sunday, 05 June 2022  Page Views: 315

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: St Martin's Head Cairns
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 10.0 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isles of Scilly Type: Barrow Cemetery

Map Ref: SV94181609
Latitude: 49.966443N  Longitude: 6.266158W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The two St Martin's Head Cairns (Vote or comment on this photo)
At St Martin's Head on Chapel Down there was originally 4 Cairns.

Only two are clearly visible nowadays, one under the very easy to see Day Mark and another just to it's west.
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St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The main summit Cairn found under the Day Mark (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : St Martin's Head Cairn, It's said that there are 4 cairns here, The first time i came i saw 2, This time i was determined to find the others, I did find this one to the East of the Day Mark, but sadly the 4th eluded me (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The Cairn just to the West of the Day Mark Cairn on St Martin's Head (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : St Martin's Head Cairns, The two side by side Cairns (Vote or comment on this photo)

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The Day Mark Cairn, Someone once suggested that the Day Mark isn't built on a far older Cairn, Not sure what they were looking at!!! As it's as clear a Cairn as you can get, It even has remaining kerbstones, and why would the day Mark builders build a mound for it? When there are cairns here that fulfil that role for them (1 comment)

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The Cairn just to the West of the Day Mark Cairn at St Martin's Head on Chapel Down

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : A remaining Large Kerbstone at St Martin's Head Day Mark Cairn on a moody misty may morning

St Martin's Head Cairns
St Martin's Head Cairns submitted by Bladup : The Cairn under the St Martin's Head Day Mark, It's been suggested that the Cairn under the day mark isn't a cairn because a wall that runs off from the NW corner of the early-medieval chapel appears to be overlain by the Cairn, But this clearly isn't the case and the old wall is built into the cairn, and not the cairn built over it, The cairn itself is very very clearly a definite cairn, Which ev...

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