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We seem to have three sites that are all the same thing here.

The classification of 'Entrance Grave' is the correct one, but is it on South Hill or North Hill and what is the correct grid ref?

Are they all the same site? Or just different sites on the same hill?

On a different note, these look a lot like what is being found on Anglezarke.

Three people have taken the photographs on Samson. I stick by mine which is of South Hill SV878124 http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/18812. North Hill has entrance graves, cairns, cists and a field system. South Hill has entrance graves, round houses, field systems, cairns and hut circles. Confusing isn't it, but I think all three photographs are of the same entrance grave.

I can't comment on exactly what pics are what, but like many of the Scilly isles Samson is relatively undisturbed and has a mass / jumble of pre-Christian remains. We could therefore also be asking 'why aren't there more Samson sites on TMA?'. The answer is probably that they are damn difficult to separate and difficult to visit.

I would assume that http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2642 and http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4613 are the same site. Probably best to just have two sites for the island (south hill and north hill) and put all the info up within those two categories, unless someone is going to do some intense fieldwork to separate them.

Jeanette Ratclifffe in 'Scilly's Archaeological Heritage' (Twelveheads Press, 1995) shows 9 entrance graves, 7 cairns, 2 cists, and a field system just on North Hill! South Hill weighs in with 4 entrance graves, 5 roundhouses, a field system and a partridge in a pear tree.

I also have the Cornwall Archaeological Unit’s 215 page epic 'The Archaeology of Scilly' (1989), which is frighteningly detailed and shows more even antiquities!

Some rearranging has taken place. If anyone has any comments please feel free to make them, especially about the image posted for North Hill.