Minions Mound

Nearest town:
Liskeard (6km S)
OS reference:
SX260712
OS sheet:
201
Latitude:
50° 30' 50.64 N
Longitude:
4° 27' 16.35 W
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Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by markj99

Minions Mound (SX 25788 71096) viewed from N.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Jun 21, 2023
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by markj99

Minions Mound (SX 25788 71096) viewed from E.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Jun 21, 2023
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by markj99

Minions Mound (SX 25788 71096) viewed from S.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Jun 21, 2023
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by markj99

Minions Mound (SX 25788 71096) viewed from W.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
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markj99 Jun 21, 2023
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by markj99

Centre of Minions Mound (SX 25788 71096) viewed from NW.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Jun 21, 2023
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

The badly damaged cairn at SX 2578 7109. The bigger of the two Trewalla cairns can be seen profiled on the skyline to the left of the chimney.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.6.2018)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 2, 2018
Image of Minions Mound (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by Mr Hamhead

This barrow lies to the west of The Hurlers carpark on the ridge running parallel to the road. It has been dug into leaving just an arc of wall. It is not the Minions Mound although it looks that way on the map.

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 5, 2004

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Minions Mound

markj99
markj99 Jun 21, 2023

Visited 06.06.23

When I read Mr Hamhead’s fieldnotes I realised that I had been walking past the original Minions Mound on every visit to Minions. The stone wall constructed round the mound may be protecting it for future antiquarians, however it also disguises the antiquity of the site.
I decided to visit the Minions Mound currently marked on the OS as it was a flat walk for c. 300 yards. The round barrow stands out of the moorland, a horseshoe-shaped bank up to 1 yard high on the S Arc and c. 20 yards in diameter. The centre of the mound has been stone robbed down to ground level from the NW.
Historic England 1010256 has further information on the tumulus.

Minions Mound

C
CARL Apr 27, 2015

Visited 16.4.15

Had it not been for Mr Hamhead’s notes I would have had no idea it was there!
Very easy to miss as it just looks like part of a garden wall.
Nothing much to see but it is nice to know that the barrow has survived.

Minions Mound

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 5, 2004

OK, hands up who’s parked in the car park and walked to The Hurlers and missed this?

Easily done, don’t look much like a barrow I agree. But this my friends is how Minions got its name. On an 1845 map of the area the only thing marked (apart from mines) are the Hurlers and the Minions Barrow.

Nowadays it sits entombed behind a 4ft high granite wall and I can find no record of any dig ever being done on it . Possibly because it had been “explored” by local miners same as the Rillaton Barrow.

Just west of the mound is another tumuli which has definatly been dug into. This is the one that seems to be marked as the Minions Mound on the OS map, belive me it ain’t!

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