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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tregiffian Barrow Alternative Name: Cruk Tregyffian
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Penzance  Nearest Village: St Buryan / Trewoofe
Map Ref: SW43042443  Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 50.064347N  Longitude: 5.591912W
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.
 3 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.
 5 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
 5

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Richard13 visited on 21st Jul 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 This site is easily accessible by road, as the road was actually built across part of it. Still well worth a visit and recognisable as a Barrow, although sadly most people driving past (through?) it will have no idea it is there!

markj99 visited on 18th Feb 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5 It is always disappointing when a monument loses out to a road however the remains of Tregiffian Barrow are only a short walk from The Merry Maidens.

elad13 visited on 4th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

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ajmp3003 visited on 2nd May 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Partly burried under the road

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coin visited on 1st Jan 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 1 Access: 5 Under a road?

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.07 Ambience: 3.14 Access: 5

Tregiffian Barrow
Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Richard13 : Tregiffian Barrow, showing the cup marked stone, and the proximity of the road! (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered tomb by the side of a country road near to the Merry Maidens, which has a stone near the entrance decorated with numerous cup marks. This circular barrow, located just down the road from the Merry Maidens consists of a burial chamber composed of stone uprights, dry stone walling and 4 capstones. The northern half has been obliterated by the modern road.

One of the wallstones is decorated with cupmarks, although a replica now stands in its place as the original was taken some years ago to the Cornwall Museum in Truro to protect it against weathering etc.

(This site is managed by the Cornwall Heritage Trust.) Located 2 miles southeast of St Buryan on the B3315. There is a small parking area next to the nearby Merry Maidens stone circle.

Note: The Tregiffian project picks up work on an unpublished excavation, including photogrammetry of the rock art, more in the comments on our page
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Tregiffian Barrow
Tregiffian Barrow submitted by enkidu41 : A neolithic Scillonian entrance grave with a chamber measuring 4.1m x 1.6m x 1m high chamber. The eastern flanking stone (now a concrete replica) is decorated with deep cupmarks. SW 4305 2442 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by PaulM : Tregiffian Chambered Tomb, West Penwith, Cornwall (SW430244) Located by the side of the road close to the Merry Maidens stone circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Looking down on Tregiffian Barrow (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by AngieLake : Tregiffian, late afternoon in May 07. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Anonymous : (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian Barrow, You can just see Merry Maidens at the top left of this photo.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by postman : Ive got those dancing feet.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by jeffrep : The Tregiffian Barrow just off the B3315 in the West Penwith area of Cornwall, England.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by DrNickLeB : Tregiffian Barrow

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian chambered cairn.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : The kerb at Tregiffian chambered cairn.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian chambered cairn.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by theCaptain : Been sorting through some old photos, and found this of Tregiffian Barrow in May 1986.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by postman : Tregiffian's capstones, and Gun Rith menhirin the field beyond.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by bec-zog : Tregiffian Entrance grave @ St Buryan SW431344. Once circular barrow now cut ib half by the road B3315. The eastern wallstone has been replaced with a concrete replica the original now lies in Truro museam

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by bec-zog : Tregiffian Entrance grave @ St Buryan SW431344. Once circular barrow now cut in half by the road B3315.

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian Barrow Passage

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : The large dish/cup mark on top of a capstone at Tregiffian, which is interesting enough but strangely the dish/cup mark is mirrored directly on the other side of the stone within the chamber (see other photo), The stone is cracked right though the middle of the dish/cup mark, and now has a metal support on the underside because of this (crack)

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : The large dish/cup mark on the other side of the stone within the chamber, The metal support and the fact the stone is now broken (though the dish) gets in the way somewhat and it's certainly clearer on-site but it's there alright.

Tregiffian Barrow
Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : The large dish/cup mark on top of a capstone at Tregiffian, which is interesting enough but strangely the dish/cup mark is mirrored directly on the other side of the stone within the chamber (see other photo), I'm not the first to ask this but was this stone part of a re-used former standing stone? I imagine the answer is "yes" (Some of the circle stones at the very nearby Merry Maidens look like ...

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian Barrow

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup : Tregiffian Barrow, Beltane 2023

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Tregiffian Barrow submitted by Bladup

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The Tregiffian project - more work on an unpublished excavation by Andy B on Saturday, 01 October 2022
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The Tregiffian project is the analysis and dating of the archive from unpublished excavations at an entrance grave at Tregiffian in Penwith, Cornwall. The project involves
analysis and publication of the very significant findings from the site and aims to establish a thorough chronological basis for the use of the entrance grave for burial, as well as
analysing the burials and ceramics from the site and detailed photogrammetry of the stones.

The excavations at Tregiffian were undertaken by Dorothy Dudley in 1967–8 and subsequently by Arthur ApSimon in 1972–3. These seasons of excavation revealed that, unlike all other megalithic tombs of this form, Tregiffian had a complex history which included the deposition of cremated human remains in the chamber and within three pits, one of which contained a ceramic vessel and another sherds, and alterations of the kerb which may have been intended to block further access to the site. Uniquely for a Cornish entrance grave, the excavations also revealed evidence for the incorporation of rock art on several stones within the monument.

More in PAST from the Prehistoric Society:
https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/sites/prehistoricsociety.org/files/publications/past/PAST%20101%20for%20web.pdf

https://www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications/past/101
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    Re: The Tregiffian project - more work on an unpublished excavation by stonetramp on Friday, 18 November 2022
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    Andy, when there recently I saw that large pits in the stone (that I believe is a replica?) were called cup marks. I have never seen cup marks this large.
    Are they sure these were human-made?

    Colleen
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Video by lucasn on Tuesday, 10 April 2018
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGhRI_lSOs&t=5s
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Re: Tregiffian Barrow by TheCaptain on Wednesday, 21 June 2017
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Notes from a visit Sept 2013

From Gun-Rith we walk along the western side of the field to the gate in the corner, which is much easier than crossing the field, just one more site to visit on the way back to the car which is Tregiffian Barrow. Dad seems almost incredulous at the amount of different sites and types there are to be found here, with a comment along the lines of “I never knew there was so much to be seen here, its amazing”.

The barrow is looking good today and has a little signpost with some explanation. I point out the carved stone (replacement) at the entrance, and that the road has cut through the back of it, but thankfully they left the curve of the road around it when they were going to straighten it in the 1960’s.

Today it seems to be more like a Breton allée couverte than a typical Cornish burial chamber, and perhaps that says something about it’s builders. There is a lovely vivid Red Admiral spreading its wings just inside the entrance, and taking a photo of this with a running out battery makes me forget to have a proper look inside what is left of the chamber.

So that’s it for this little stonehunting exercise, Dad seems well impressed by all the sites to be seen round here, and it’s also lovely for me to see them again on a nice sunny afternoon. I want to call in to the Marry Maidens again on the way back to the car, walking through their field rather than along the road, but Dad reminds me of the jammed upper gate and says he isn’t going to climb that again, and similarly I am not going to let him walk up alongside the busy road, picking at all the blackberries etc on his own, so it’s up the road and back to the car, also having a look over the hedge into the garden of the dwelling there. Intriguing. Is it just a caravan with a large elaborate garden?
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Re: Video by 4862 on Monday, 02 January 2017
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This beautiful tomb is just down the road from Merry Maidens stone circle and is near to Gun Rith standing stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_KihPqjSn4
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