Carn Gluze
Carn Gluze (or Gloose - better known as the Ballowall Barrow ) is a large cairn on the Cornwall coast in Great Britain overlooking the Isles of Scilly . The complex, excavated by William Copeland Borlase in 1870, is located south of Cape Cornwall, near St. Just, on the Cornwall Coast Path and is unique in the British Isles . In the center, the system consists of a large chamber with a diameter of about 11.3 m, which is made of dry masonry and was covered by a cantilever vault . The chamber contained three small stone boxes and at the northeast end a T-shaped pit cut into the rock, which is seen as a symbolic entry into the underworld.
The monument was later rebuilt. A round platform about 25 m in diameter was built around the chamber. She buried the lower part of the chamber so that only the roof protruded. A passage tomb was built in the southwest on the outer edge and several stone boxes are located below the platform.
The current appearance of the Cairn was created by using an excavator to dig a trench around the central chamber and a passage. The complex dates from the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age .
literature
- Richard Cavendish: Prehistoric England 1983 London
- A. Sharpe: Ballowall St Just in Penwith, Cornwall . An Archaeological Assessment. Historic Environment Service, Cornwall County Council 1999.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 20.2 " N , 5 ° 42 ′ 5" W.