Treswallock Downs

Nearest town:
Bodmin (11km SSW)
OS reference:
SX116778
OS sheet:
200
Latitude:
50° 34' 8.11 N
Longitude:
4° 39' 38.84 W
Added to TMA by

Images

Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Mound on W Arc of Treswallock Downs N Cairn.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn viewed from N.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn viewed from E.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn viewed from S.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn viewed from W.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

S Arc of Outer Kerb of Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

Stacked Stones on SE Outer Kerb of Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by markj99

E Arc of Inner Kerb of Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn at SX 11607782, looking northeast towards Roughtor and Brown Willy.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2019)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 13, 2019
Image of Treswallock Downs (Cairn(s)) by thesweetcheat

The cairn at SX 11607782, looking southwest. The distant hills on the left skyline are the downs above St Austell, including Hensbarrow.

Image credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2019)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 13, 2019

Articles

Treswallock Downs

markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022

Visited 11.09.22

Treswallock Downs N Cairn (SX11837838) is a grassy mound bisected by the path to Alex Tor. It is almost entirely robbed of stones leaving a round footprint of irregular grassy mounds measuring up to c. 12 yards in diameter & 2.5 feet high. Treswallock Downs N Cairn is listed as Cornwall & Scilly HER Number: 1970.40 (go to Links).

Treswallock Downs

markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022

Visited 11.09.22

Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn (SX11717816) is constructed on a round platform measuring c. 22 yards in diameter & 1 foot high. It has an Outer Kerb, best preserved in the S Arc, measuring c. 17 yards in diameter and 1 foot high. There is an intermittent Inner Kerb of Standing Stones up to c. 2 feet high 2 yards within the Outer Kerb. A continuous Arc of the Inner Kerb can be traced in the E Arc of Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn. Large stones lie scattered in the centre of the cairn, probably as a result of stone robbing. Cornwall & Scilly HER Number: 1970.30 (go to Links) give a full description of Treswallock Downs Central Ring Cairn.

Treswallock Downs

markj99
markj99 Sep 27, 2022

Visited 11.09.22

Cornwall & Scilly HER Number: 1970 (go to Links) describes a group of 7 Bronze Age Cairns on Treswallock Downs. They vary from impressive Kerb Cairns to mutilated mounds. I was only able to locate 4 cairns: Alex Tor Ring Cairn (listed separately on TMA), Treswallock N Cairn, Treswallock Central Ring Cairn and Treswallock S Cairn. Treswallock S Cairn is located at SX 1160 7782 as recorded by thesweetcheat.

Miscellaneous

Treswallock Downs
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 13, 2019

Pastscape descriptions of two cairns on Treswallock Downs:

SX 11607782

The mutilated cairn comprises a ragged, turf-covered mound which incorporates an incomplete kerb of upright slabs (the tallest is 1.1m high). The overall dimensions of the mound are about 7.2m by 6.9m although much of its centre and north-west side have been robbed; the kerb is approximately 4.4m in diameter.

The cairn material may have originally been contained within the standing slabs.

SX 11627783

A disturbed turf-covered cairn approximately 7.7m in diameter and 0.4m high. It has traces of a kerb fringe of the mound. Its top has been mutilated and a large earthfast boulder lies to one side of an 0.3m deep central pit.

Sites within 20km of Treswallock Downs

Like all websites everywhere, we use cookies.