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Submitted by | Horatio |
Added | Sep 29 2023 |
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I wanted to capture a photo of this showing the bigger picture something that you can't really see from ground level. I forgot I'd been back here in September after Worms head until driving home from work today! So, information re the cairn is below taken from of the Coflein site-
"The cairn does not appear as a mound, but rather as a slight stony bank surrounding a hollow, often water-filled, within which the tomb stands. The bank barely rises above the level of the ground outside, its outer limit being defined as a fairly true circle of 23m diameter where stones begin to protrude from turf to turf, while the inner limit of added material is about 4m towards the centre the stones of the bank vary in size up to 30cm across and are probable derived from excavation of the hollow, in which stones up to 50cm across are included in the irregular surface at 0.8m below ground level.
The hollow plainly results from the construction of the tomb at its centre by underpinning a natural boulder which rested at ground level. The full depth of the original hollow is not visible, so that it remains uncertain whether it was dug in a natural scree deposit or in a regular soil profile overlaying rock. It seems unlikely that the capstone was ever covered by a cairn material, though the stones now distributed in the hollow may have been heaped against the sides."
"The cairn does not appear as a mound, but rather as a slight stony bank surrounding a hollow, often water-filled, within which the tomb stands. The bank barely rises above the level of the ground outside, its outer limit being defined as a fairly true circle of 23m diameter where stones begin to protrude from turf to turf, while the inner limit of added material is about 4m towards the centre the stones of the bank vary in size up to 30cm across and are probable derived from excavation of the hollow, in which stones up to 50cm across are included in the irregular surface at 0.8m below ground level.
The hollow plainly results from the construction of the tomb at its centre by underpinning a natural boulder which rested at ground level. The full depth of the original hollow is not visible, so that it remains uncertain whether it was dug in a natural scree deposit or in a regular soil profile overlaying rock. It seems unlikely that the capstone was ever covered by a cairn material, though the stones now distributed in the hollow may have been heaped against the sides."
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