Alex Gate

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The outcrop surrounded by a gate cairn

Alex Tor is a 291  m ASL high conical hill northeast of St Breward on the west of the Bodmin Bog in Cornwall , England .

On the summit is the eponymous outcrop made of weathered granite slabs , surrounded by a large complex gate cairn , a prehistoric place of worship in the form of a ring cairn , in the center of which lies the outcrop.

Visible from the summit plateau are: Brown Willy and Buttern Hill . Other partially visible examples of gate cairns are: Catshole Gate, Corndon Gate, Cox Gate, Hameldown Gate, Limsboro Cairn, Rough Gate , Tolborough Gate, Top Gate, Tregarrick Gate, White Gate (Peter Tavy) and Yes Gate .

Round cairns are common in Cornwall; more than 3000 are known. The foundations of old round huts and the remains of an old farm lie on the western flank of the mountain.

  • Tors in Dartmoor

  • Bellever Gate

  • Bench gate

  • Birch Gate

  • Black Tor

  • Blackingstone Rock

  • Chinkwell Gate

  • Crow gate

  • Hound gate

  • Combestone Gate

  • Laughter gate

literature

  • Frances Lynch: Megalithic tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 ( Shire archeology 73).
  • Elizabeth Shee Twohig: Irish Megalithic tombs . Shire, Princes Risborough 1990, ISBN 0-7478-0094-4 ( Shire archeology 63).
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′  N , 4 ° 40 ′  W