Trewortha Cairn
Trewortha Cairn is a ring cairn set with eight relatively narrow curb stones with a small stone box in the center.
It is not far from Kilmar Tor, about one kilometer southeast of Trewortha Farm in "Twelve Men's Moor", southwest of Launceston in Cornwall in England .
The platform cairn , a subspecies of the ring cairns with the box in the middle, is a well-preserved example of the Bronze Age genus. Only the cairn material that covered the stone box and the wall between the curb ring are missing.
About 750 m away there is the "Twelve men's moor cairn", a similar cairn, only half of which has been preserved. At Trewortha Farm is the reconstruction of a Bronze Age village with round huts and houses, as well as a late medieval field system.
See also
literature
- Frances Lynch: Ring cairns in Britain and Ireland: their design and purpose. In: Ulster Journal of Archeology. 42, 1979, pp. 1-19.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '54.1 " N , 4 ° 28' 42.8" W.