Craddock Moor cairn cemetery

Nearest town:
Liskeard (7km SSE)
OS reference:
SX244720
OS sheet:
201
Latitude:
50° 31' 14.85 N
Longitude:
4° 28' 38.88 W
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Craddock Moor W Barrow viewed from Craddock Moor E Barrow.

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Central Mound of Craddock Moor W Barrow viewed from N.

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Excavated Pit in Central Mound of Craddock Moor W Barrow.

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Central Mound of Craddock Moor Cairn viewed from W.

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The wide, low eastern cairn at SX 2502 7196, looking WNW.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.6.2018)
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thesweetcheat Oct 2, 2018
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The top of the eastern cairn at SX 2502 7196, looking towards Tregarrick Tor. The stone circle is on the same line, but the fallen stones are not easy to see even from this close.

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The easternmost cairn on Craddock Moor, to the NE of the stone circle at SX 2502 7196. Stowe’s Pound is far left, Caradon Hill to the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (22.6.2018)
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The central mound of the western cairn of the pair at SX244717.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 25, 2016
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The western of the pair of prominent cairns to the WSW of the circle. It’s built of stone, but in form resembles a disc barrow, with an outer rim enclosing a berm and central mound.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 25, 2016
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Eastern of the pair of cairns WSW of the circle, looking north with Kilmar Tor on the right skyline.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 25, 2016
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One of the pair of large cairns on the summit ridge, WSW of the stone circle.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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One of the group of three small cairns centred on SX246719.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 25, 2016
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Large but disturbed cairn at the eastern edge of the group centred on SX244721. The bare mound over to the left is mining spoil.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2016
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Another of the group at SX244721, looking south to the high part of the moor.

Image credit: A. Brookes (23.6.2016)
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Articles

Craddock Moor cairn cemetery

markj99
markj99 Jun 22, 2023

Visited 07.06.23

If you have walked to the shy and retiring Craddock Moor Stone Circle it is only an extension of c. 500 yards WSW towards a low mound on the horizon to reach Craddock Moor E Barrow. The round mound measures c. 17 yards across and 1 yard high. The fern-covered mound is studded with small protruding stones. Craddock Moor W Barrow, which is located c. 40 yards W, measures c. 20 yards across. It consists of a central mound c. 8 yards across and 1 yard high surrounded by a circular stony bank up to 0.5 yard high.

Craddock Moor cairn cemetery

markj99
markj99 Jun 17, 2023

Visited 07.06.23

Craddock Moor NE Cairn is located in the NE of Craddock Moor in Cornwall. The grassy platform cairn measures c 33 yards in diameter and 1 yard high. A central mound measures c. 25 yards across. The mound is enclosed by an earth bank c. 3 yards wide and 1 foot high, c. 1 yard outside the edge of the mound. Further details of Craddock Moor NE Cairn are available in Historic England 1010310.

Craddock Moor Stone Circle lies c. 200 yards SW of Craddock Moor NE Cairn.

Craddock Moor cairn cemetery

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead May 21, 2007

The ridge leading out to Tregarrick Tor from Minions contains at least five cairns (or Tumuli if you use the OS map) The two biggest stand proud and can be viewed from some distance away. One is a standard cairn, usual mound of granite boulders although the covering of moss on many I find unusual. The second, that stands just to the west, is a nice ring cairn. Both (in May 07) have been striped of vegitation and are easily seen. The ring cairn has been subjected to fire and all the gorse has been burnt back revelaing its shape.

Miscellaneous

Craddock Moor cairn cemetery
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2016

There are several groups of cairns on Craddock Moor.

One group forms a rough arc to the northeast of the Craddock Moor embanked avenue, centred on approx. SX244721. Cornwall & Scilly HER:

A scattered group of approximately six cairns (1291.01 – 1291.10) on the floor of a west facing re-entrant which cuts into the high ground of Craddock Moor, in an area dotted with prospecting pits and surrounded by disturbed ground. These features were first recorded by CCRA and in 1985 were surveyed on the ground by RCHME. According to the latter, they may be cairns rather than clearance heaps, although one large mound (at SX 2445 7210) within the group is formed from upcast dug out of the adjacent mining pit. The identified cairns consist of turf covered stony mounds, 1.5m – 8.5m in diameter and 0.3m – 0.8m high, none of which show evidence of a kerb or a cist and the majority of which have mutilated in one way or another. The cairns are in generally good condition though many have been disturbed. Their sepulchral / ritual character is supported by their proximity to an embanked avenue and a stone row.

A further three small cairns are centred on approx. SX 246719:

A small group of three cairns situated on a gentle north western slope in unenclosed moorland pasture. These cairns were surveyed on the ground in 1984 by RCHME. They are simple mounds, circular and oval in plan and have diameters ranging from 3.5m to 0.4m. Two of the cairns have been dug into, but the group as a whole is in good condition.

The largest cairns are the pair mentioned by Mr Hamhead at SX 2444 7168.

Western cairn

Overall diameter of 18m, comprising a platform or berm 0.2m high and a raised perimerter, 1.5m wide and 0.2m high. Some protruding stone suggests that it has stone kerb. At the centre of the platform there is a mound of stone 7.3m across and a further 0.5m high. This cairn is in good condition.

Eastern cairn

A platform with an overall diameter of 13m and a height of 0.4m, with traces of a kerb on the northern side. There is a central mound 9.2m in diameter and 0.8m high. This cairn is in good condition.

Other isolated cairns are dotted about the moor, with a further group clustered around Tregarrick Tor.

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