Ballowall
Barrow
Burial Complex
SW 355 313
Take the Cape Cornwall road signed from St Just Turn left after the houses on the left and follow the road to Carn Gloose, about 1km further. The barrow is on the left, nearly opposite a mine chimney. You can park a little further on where the National Trust has laid on some picnic benches. It was very windy here and there are spectacular coastal views.
The entrance to a chambered tomb
This is one of the largest burial chambers in the area and it includes an entrance grave and a series of cists possibly of a later date. The barrow is about 22m diameter.
In the SSW appears to be an entrance to a chambered tomb about 1.5m wide and under 1m high capped with a granite lintel. There is a central mound within the cairn and the remains of two concentric drystone walls about 1m apart. Six cists were found when the site was excavated, one containing an urn and two others with fragments of pottery.
Two of the cists
The cairn was excavated about 1870, it had been buried in the waste tips of local mines.
Easter
2002
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