Entrance Graves by Treen
The two Entrance Graves of Treen (Treen SW and NW) are located south of Treen (also Trereen) in Cornwall in England . The Entrance Graves are two of four megalithic structures or burial mounds in the region, of which the two surviving so-called Scillonian entrance graves are. The other two are too damaged to determine the type. Entrance graves are simple, often slightly wedge-shaped galleries, which are located in relatively small, round stone mounds, but do not resemble the somewhat more elaborate Wedge Tombs . Their mostly rectangular chambers have horizontal ceilings.
Treen (SW)
Location: 50 ° 10 ′ 42.3 ″ N , 5 ° 35 ′ 21.3 ″ W.
The better preserved is Treen (SW) with a hill about 8.0 m in diameter and 1.35 m high and an approximately 4.0 m long, 0.9 m high and 1.2 m wide chamber on the north side. The chamber faces the mid-winter sun over Carn Galva.
Treen (NW)
Location: 50 ° 10 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 5 ° 35 ′ 22.5 ″ W.
Treen (NW) is about 60 m north of Treen (SW) and is the smaller of the two. It has a mound of earth about 1.05 m high and about 6.0 m in diameter. Only one capstone at the inner end of the south-west facing chamber is preserved.
literature
- Glyn Daniel : The Prehistoric Chambered Tombs of England and Wales. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1950, pp.?.
- Paul Ashbee: In: Mesolithic megaliths? The Scillonian entrance graves: A new view . In: Cornish Archeology 21, 1982, pp. 3-22 ( digitized version ).
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