Tregriffian
Burial Chamber
Entrance grave
SW 430 245
This lies on the verge beside the B3315 just a couple of hundred metres west of the Merry Maidens stone circle.
This is the oldest monument in the area. The road had cut through the mound and ring of kerbstones in 1846 and luckily the chamber was at the other side and wasn’t destroyed.
View of
the entrance and cupmarked
stone
The inner structure comprises a chamber set within an oval kerb of low stones that increase in height towards the entrance. A large slab set between two uprights, one of which is cupmarked, defined the outer limit of the chamber. (The cupmarked stone is a copy and the original is in Truro Museum.) The walls and roof of the chamber are made up with large slabs.
The kerbstones and nearby road
The chamber contained a large number of bones when first excavated and has been radiocarbon dated at 1900BC.
Easter
2002
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