Chapel Carn Brea
Chapel Carn Brea was originally an Entrance Grave ( German "entrance grave " , also called "Scillonian Entrance Grave" or "West County Tomb"). It is located on a hill east of Brea Farm in Crows-an-wra, near St. Just in Cornwall , England, and was rebuilt at a later date.
The mound of the Neolithic Entrance Grave was approximately 27.5 mx 8.2 m with a south-facing chamber with a conical inner end and two capstones in the center. This facility was expanded in the Bronze Age . There was also a stone box with a square capstone measuring around 4.5 m, for which the hill was expanded. This resulted in a massive cairn about 4.5 m high that was over 57 m long, had a curb and three inner concentric retaining walls.
The stone box and parts of the two inner retaining walls were exposed, but it is unknown whether the original entrance is still buried under the hill or has been destroyed.
literature
- Frances Lynch: Megalithic tombs and Long Barrows in Britain . Shire, Princes Risborough 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0341-2 ( Shire archeology 73).
- 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 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 42 " N , 5 ° 39 ′ 23.1" W.