View NW of Tregiffian Burial Chamber, Cornwall, England, UK, showing the kerbed round barrow, cup-marked stone, entrance passage & central chamber.


View NW of Tregiffian Burial Chamber, Cornwall, England, UK, showing the kerbed round barrow, cup-marked stone, entrance passage & central chamber. A Neolithic (3rd millennium BC) passage grave of the Scilly/Penwith type: an entrance grave with a stone lined & lintelled passage. The nearest portal slab is a concrete replica bearing 25 deep cupmarks. The entrance is blocked by a fallen lintel & the NW side of the mound has been cut off by the B3315 road. Goon Rith standing stone is in the field, out of frame rear R.


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Location: Tregiffian Burial Chamber, St Buryan, West Penwith, Cornwall, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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