Tredinney Barrow

Nearest town:
Newlyn (7km ENE)
OS reference:
SW39212846
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 5' 53.62 N
Longitude:
5° 38' 49.68 W
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Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the west-north-west on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the west-south-west on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the east-south-east on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the south-south-east on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the south-east on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the east-north-east on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the north-north-west on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by Chris Bond

Tredinney Barrow on Tredinney Common, photographed from the north-north-west on 14 August 2004. © Chris Bond.

Image credit: Chris Bond
Chris Bond
Chris Bond Dec 10, 2023
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The badly mutilated eastern side of the barrow. Chapel Carn Brea with its own cairns rises behind.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.10.2020)
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thesweetcheat Jul 18, 2021
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Looking southeast. The notch of the Lamorna valley and St Buryan church tower are skyline features.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.10.2020)
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thesweetcheat Jul 18, 2021
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

From the northwest, showing the wall built across the edge of the barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.10.2020)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 18, 2021
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Looking SW. The huge ruined chambered cairn on top of Chapel Carn Brea hill can be seen on the far right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Looking south across the ruined mound. St Buryan church can be seen faintly on the skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

Showing W.C. Borlase’s excavation crater in the centre of the barrow. Looking ESE as the mist started to lift.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

This huge slab, weighing several tons, forms the west side of the barrow. I couldn’t tell whether this is field clearance built into the adjacent wall or part of the original composition.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013
Image of Tredinney Barrow (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

A fieldwall of enormous blocks has been built up alongside the barrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (18.6.2013)
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thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013

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Tredinney Barrow
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 6, 2013

The barrow was excavated by William Copeland Borlase (great-great grandson of William Borlase):

Six miles west of Penzance on the brow of a hill on the right-hand side of the road leading to the Land’s End, was an undisturbed cairn 38’ in diameter, mounted on a pile of natural rocks, and surrounded by a ring of 16 large granite blocks set on edge.

On 21st Aug. 1868 the author proceeded with some miners to the spot, and caused an oblong trench to be sunk across the centre of the mound. About 18 inches from the surface was a pile of rocks, (the natural formation of the crest of the hill,) as will be seen on the accompanying plan.

Under a large flat stone a kistvaen was revealed. 1’4” in breadth and 18” deep constructed of eight stones in two layers of four each. These side stones were purposely fitted closely round an urn, mouth downwards which was filled with bones and two chipped flints, two more of which were found outside the urn but within the kist.

The vessel, which had no bottom, was brownish and not well baked and was ornamented with the usual chevron pattern, placed horizontally. It had four pierced bosses or handles. The bones, probably of a woman were not so completely calcined as is usually the case.

The sloping rock in the centre of the barrow was surrounded on all sides with ashes and charred wood; and beneath it, when raised, was nearly a cartload of ashes, as white and fresh as if a fire had scarcely been extinguished from them.

W.C. Borlase – Naenia Cornubiae (1872)

The plan can be seen here.

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