Brane (Cornwall)
That of his Cairns largely deprived Entrance grave ( German "input grave" ) of Brane stands in the pasture, about two kilometers southwest of Sancreed in Cornwall in England . Entrance graves are found in England in Cornwall (14) and the Isles of Scilly (over 80). Five plants are located in County Waterford in Ireland .
William Copeland Borlase (1848–1899) writes that he discovered the "Chapel of Euny Barrow" (now Brane) in 1863 while he was probably visiting Carn Euny . He recognized the structure similar to that of the Pennance facility he had previously visited. In 1982 Brane was considered one of the best preserved chambered tombs ( English chambered tombs ) in the UK , but already seven years later the curbs were removed and the hills material displaced by cattle. In 1995 Brane was restored by adding new granite curbs and backfilling the hill.
With a diameter of about 4.7 m, the stone mound of Brane (like Bosiliack ) is a small example of its genus, the majority of the entrance graves are located in round mounds measuring between six and twelve meters. The hill was framed by a ring of heavy, connected curb stones made of pink and gray granite, which, with the exception of one stone, lie at the rear of the megalithic complex. This is also the highest stone in the enclosure, which is also shown standing upright in one of the Borlase engravings, so that this was probably the original state. The material of the slightly oval hill consists of earth and stones.
The chamber is accessed through a wide gap between the curbs. Some of the chambers of this type are roofed over their entire length and some, including Brane, have an area that is open at the top, which extends from the curb to the covered chamber area. The western outer plate of the lateral chamber plates extends to the curb ring. The eastern outer plate is missing.
A typical feature of the entrance tombs is that their chambers extend beyond the center point into the hill. At Brane, the chamber with the open passage area is 3.7 m long, while the Cairn is 4.7 m in diameter. The chamber consists of two large, rectangular panels on each side, a rear panel placed in between and two large ceiling panels that sit on top of the lintel . This type of chamber construction with large panels differs from the Pennance system, where only dry masonry was used , or from Tregiffian, where a combination of both types was used.
Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) thinks it is possible that a third capstone covered the chamber up to the edge of the curb and classifies the system in its category D of straight chambers.
literature
- Glyn Daniel : The Prehistoric Chambered Tombs of England and Wales , 1950, Cambridge University Press.
- Paul Ashbee: Cornish Archeology 21 , pp. 3-22 1982
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 48.6 " N , 5 ° 38 ′ 6" W.