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Summit cairn on Brown Willy

Ancient tomb or cairn
Summit cairn on Brown Willy
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A named place photographed at this map point in Cornwall.
Neolithic cairn; dates to the earlier part of the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. It is significant as one of several prehistoric monuments on Brown Willy, reflecting the importance of high ground in ritual and funerary practices in southwest Britain.

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