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Round Barrow(s)
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Visited 06/11/01CE.
We nearly walked straight past this one, but the write-up in Journey To The Stones contained just enough cosmic-ness for us to warrant checking it out. Hidden away to the side of an already overgrown path, Bosiliack is a pretty little thing marked on the OS map only as "Tumulus". The Barrow has been robbed of its capstones and cowers exposed in fear of the elements, but is especially interesting because of an experiment undertaken by Cooke in 1986. He sat against the backstone in the chamber to see if there was any link with the mid-winter sunrise, and guess what? The first rays struck the backstone, with the sun in a direct alignment with the axis of the passage. Just like Maes Howe and Newgrange, this little barrow likes to show off once in a while, but because of it's location and limited reputation, it doesn't have much of an audience.This post appears as part of the weblog entry Visit to Land's End, 03-08/11/01ce |
Posted by Holy McGrail
29th November 2001ce
Edited 26th November 2002ce
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