What is recorded here
The National Heritage List for England records Embanked platform cairn with central mound on Browngelly Downs, 680m ESE of Higher Gillhouse Farm as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Embanked platform cairn; Neolithic period. These cairns are significant as early ritual or funerary monuments, reflecting Neolithic burial practices and landscape use in upland areas.
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Places near here
Brown GellyMountain / peak · 184 yd
Cairn on Brown GellyAncient tomb or cairn · 348 yd
Searle's Down prehistoric stone rowAncient stone or rock art · 1.5 mi
Colliford LakeHeritage place · 1.9 mi
Hill TorMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Colliford Lake NW end on Bodmin MoorHeritage place · 2.2 mi
Dryworks PlantationForest · 2.8 mi
Golitha Falls on the River FoweyWaterfall · 3.2 mi
Cascades at Golitha Falls on the River FoweyWaterfall · 3.3 mi
Temple Trout FisheryHeritage attraction · 3.6 mi
Carnglaze Cavern - ticket officeCave or cavern · 3.8 mi
Carnglaze Cavern - lower levelCave or cavern · 3.8 mi