Carne Beacon
Carne Beacon (also known as Veryan Barrow) is located near Churchtown Farm, south of Veryan and north of Carne on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall , England . Carn Beacon is considered the largest Bronze Age burial mound in England. It is 6.0 meters high and about 36.0 meters in diameter.
According to a legend, which the antiquarian John Whittaker mentions in his work "The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall" ( German "The old cathedral of Cornwall" ), a king of the Dark Ages in the 6th century AD was in a golden boat buried with silver oars in the hill. The boat was rowed by Dingerrin about Gerrans Bay and had the king Gerrenius or Gerontius (corpse English Geraint of Dumnonia ) of Devon brought that there around 555 n. Chr. (According to other sources 710 n. Chr.) Died . Apparently there was also a St. Geraint or Gerran who lived around the same time and who is said to have founded the previous church of St Gerrans-in-Roseland. So the two saints Gerrenius and Geraint are probably one and the same person.
In 1855 the mound was excavated and a stone box was found along with ashes, burned bones and charcoal. The box should come from the Bronze Age. To the north of the burial mound are the remains of an Iron Age structure known as the Veryan Rounds.
See also
literature
- Jennifer Westwood : Gothick Cornwall, Shire Publications Ltd., Princess Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 1992.
- Ray Spencer : A Guide to the Saints of Wales and the West Country, Llanerch Enterprises, Lampeter, Dyfed, 1991.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '37.8 " N , 4 ° 55' 39.9" W.