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The northern cairn.

Looking eastwards across the south cairn towards Rosewall Hill.

Massive kerb stones on the southern cairn, with remaining cist slab behind.

Approaching from the southeast, after an ankle-shredding, bullock-dodging walk up from Towednack.

The mutilated centre of the barrow.

The kerb on the south. Bartinne rises behind.

Large kerbstones on the southern arc of the barrow.

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

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

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

Zoom on the chambered cairn and long barrow from the path west of St Euny’s Well.

St Euny’s Well north, recently cleared by the Penwith Landscape Partnership.

St Euny’s Well south.

The unroofed part of the fogou.

Autumn skies over Carn Euny.

The very overgrown northeastern banks and ditch.

Looking towards Chapel Carn Brea and Bartinne hills.

Looking south towards St Buryan from the southern ramparts.

One of the entrances in the courtyard site.

Tall megalithic door- or gatepost within the courtyard settlement.

As far as I can tell this is inside the courtyard.

Remains of structures within the settlement.

General view of the very overgrown site, looking northeast. The prominent hill to the left is Sancreed Beacon, the more distant one to the right is Castle-an-Dinas.

Info board to the west of the site.

Looking south, the Boscawen-Un circle extreme left and St Buryan church tower on the right.

Looking towards Chapel Carn Brea.

Autumn stones.

Lovely bright green lichen on the central stone contrasts with the muted autumn colours around.

An attempt to show one of the axe (or foot) carvings at the base of the central stone. The torch light is shining down the recess formed by the axe shape, with the narrower end at the top.

A perfect autumn day.

Although not as iconic as Minninglow, Aleck Low’s tree-crowned hilltop is still a prominent landmark. Seen from Mouldridge Lane, some miles to the east.

Looking over the top of the round barrow towards the huge Neolithic monument.

The chamber or cist, after a bit of judicious nettle and thistle flattening.

The round barrow, a fine monument in its own right.

The huge Neolithic mound from the nearby round barrow.

Badly damaged chamber on the edge of the monument, now with fallen tree.

Well-preserved cist or chamber, minus capstone.

Chambers.

Capstone of one of the chambers, looking towards the adjacent round barrow.

Minninglow from the SSE.

Landscape context, looking northeast. Behind the farm on the left is Slipper Low, while Slipper Low II is on the green hill to the right.

With Minninglow on the left.

The field was in the process of being ploughed as we passed.

Approaching along the lane from the east. Minninglow is very obvious on the skyline, right.