Mulfra Hill round barrows

Nearest town:
Penzance (5km SE)
OS reference:
SW450356
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 9' 53.41 N
Longitude:
5° 34' 15.97 W
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Images

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Looking SW across Mulfra Hill B. Ding Dong engine house is on the skyline, far right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.6.2019)
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Mulfra Hill B, now cleared of vegetation with the kerb properly revealed.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.6.2019)
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Mulfra Hill B, being slowly reclaimed by bracken and gorse after the 2012 fire stripped it bare.

Image credit: A. Brookes (25.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 31, 2016
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The “poorly defined” Mulfra Hill A (see Miscellaneous post). Looking NE.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2012)
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Quartz-veined granite in the construction of Mulfra Hill B.

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Exposed stonework in Mulfra Hill C (this is the trench mentioned in Miscellaneous post). Apologies for horribly blurry picture, it was pouring with rain by this point.

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Mulfra Hill C in the rain. The March 2012 gorse fire has made access much more possible, although the bracken has soon sprung back up to cover the mound itself.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2012)
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thesweetcheat Jul 22, 2012
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One of the barrows, overgrown with dense gorse. Zennor Hill on the skyline, right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2011)
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thesweetcheat Jul 12, 2011

Articles

Mulfra Hill round barrows

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 21, 2009

Visited June 2008 as part of a walk from Treen tombs and “circle” to Mulfra and Zennor Quoits. The Mulfra barrows lie on the hill between Treen Common circle and Mulfra Quoit. There are several prominent barrows, at this time of year most discernable as raised features on the horizon, as the bracken and undergrowth obscures most of the features of their construction. Like Treen Common circle, worthy of a return visit in the Autumn or Winter when the undergrowth is lower.

Miscellaneous

Mulfra Hill round barrows
Round Barrow(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 22, 2012

Pastscape descriptions:

There are three mounds which can be reasonably identified as barrows on the northern part of Mulfra Hill. All are ditchless, and grass and furze covered.

A: SW 45003557 This barrow is rather poorly defined. It is 10.0m. in diameter and 0.6m. high.

B: SW. 45053553 A very mutilated barrow, 0.8m. high and 13.0m. in diameter. There are several small retaining stones on the western side. The barrow is mis-shapen and the mutilation is largely the result of animal burrowings.

C: SW. 45173547 This barrow is 11.0m. in diameter and 0.9m. high. An excavation in the top takes the form of a trench 0.8m. deep
exposing the construction of stones.

In the area of the barrows and particularly to the NW of barrow ‘A’ there are a large number of diggings which seem to be industrial pits. (Four are published as Hut Circles on the O.S.25” 1905). None of these pits could be identified as a 
barrow and none show a gravel content.

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