Bosilack
Barrow
Entrance Grave
SW 431 342
This type of burial chamber is common on the Land’s End peninsula, however this is the best example as it has been hardly touched in the past and the structure is intact only missing the capstones. It is situated just to the west of the mine building at the end of the Mên-an-Tol walk. The other way to reach this is to park onj the road to Morvah that goes to Lanyon Quoit either at the little bridge before Lanyon Farm where there is space at the end of the very overgrown footpath that leads to the site or park at Lanyon Quoit and walk back to the walled grass track that meets the footpath. I don’t recommend the footpath as it took ages struggling through tangled brambles with two unhappy dogs.
Either way both paths meet beyond the farm walls, carry on until you come to a metal gate near the old mine buildings, take the track that goes to the right before the gate and after a couple of hundred metres you reach the site.
The barrow was excavated in 1984 and a burial deposit in a tin container was found in the chamber. The barrow consists of a ring of large kerbstones and a slab lined passage leading in from the east with stone floor and sides. The mound is about 5m diameter and would have been about 1.5 metres high.
It has been proposed that the alignment of the chamber was designed to be towards the mid-winter sunrise.
Easter
2002
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