Not a lot to add to postmans notes, other than to confirm a easy site to find (called for a bout of reversing in the van on the single track road when I met a tractor and trailer coming towards me) and an absolute delight, open farmland with great rural views
Cairn 2
Cairn 1 looking back towards the entrance from chamber 6
Cairn 1.
The twin cairns of Larcuste. Cairn 1 is on the right
Looking north west
The entrance to the southern cairn.
Under the stone
Looking over the six side chambers of the southern cairn and it’s east facing entrance.
The three chambers on the southern side of the southern cairn.
The entrances to both chambers of the northern cairn.
Looking over the southern unroofed chamber of the northern cairn to the southern cairn.
Looking over the unroofed southern chamber to the capstone of the northern chamber in the northern cairn.
Under the capstone of the northern chamber of the northern cairn.
The capstone of the northern chamber of the northern cairn.
It’s very easy to find this site, it’s off the D767, follow signs for Larcuste (Google dictionary wants to change this to Testicular). It’s a tiny village, when the road turns hairpin sharp left, stop and park at the corner of the field on your right, room for maybe three cars.
Barely a five minute walk around a field next to a field full of corn, they like corn fields round here.
Then there they are, two little beauties. There used to be, once upon a time, four cairns here but two are no longer showing at all above ground, and the two that are here have been restored, some time ago.
But it doesn’t matter, I love these two, they remind me very much of some Cornish sites, Bosilack, Brane or maybe it’s the flora that grows upon them, either way they are sweet and beautiful little cuties.
They are arranged north and south of each other upon a very slight hill top, they call this a hill top ?
I’ll show them when I get home.
The southern cairn is entered from the east, a passage leads for maybe twenty five feet, off both sides are three chambers, six in all, in case my descriptive powers are too limited. The three on the south side of the cairn still have their capstones, on the north side one chamber is covered the next is half covered and the third is not covered .
The north cairn has two passages entered from the east again, leading to separate circular chambers. The southern chamber is not covered at all, but the northern chamber is, it has a large undulating capstone with two worn basins upon it. there are also supposed to be some vague carvings of crooks and serpents, but I never saw anything. Dated to 4000BC, so that’s old, very old, but still not the oldest, nor is it even close.
