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HER Number:	30894
Name:	MULFRA HILL - Bronze Age cairn

Summary

Remains of a cairn with possible cist in the centre, first recorded in 1857.

Grid Reference:	SW 4500 3557
Parish:	Madron, Penwith, Cornwall
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW43NE 70A
Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 30894
SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW43NE 126

Monument Type(s):

CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)

Full description

Russell in 1971 lists the extant remains of a cairn of stones with possible cist in the centre on Mulfra Hill (b4). It is recorded by Edmunds in 1857 (b1), WC Borlase in 1872 (b2) and by Henderson (b3). The OS who surveyed it in 1975 record a tumulus measuring 10m in diameter and 0.6m high (h2). The cairn is marked on the OS map of 1982 (b5).

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Site history:
1: 1960. GEARY, E / OS
2: 1975. UNKNOWN / OS
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Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 198-, GRH 68/2/24/3/1, Mulfra Hill Cairns, 1:100 (Cartographic materials). SCO24680.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 198-, GRH 68/2/24/3/2, Mulfra Hill Cairns Explanatory Overlay, 1:100 (Cartographic materials). SCO24681.

<1> Edmonds, R, 1857, The Celtic and other Antiquities of the Land's End district of Cornwall, 353 (Article in Journal). SCO5096.

<2> Borlase, WC, 1872, Naenia Cornubiae, 61 (Bibliographic reference). SCO2892.

<3> Henderson, C, 1914, Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, VOL II, 20, PL 18 (Unpublished document). SCO3503.

<4> Russell, V, 1971, West Penwith Survey, 20 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4314.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

Sources / Further Reading

---	SCO24680 - Cartographic materials: Cornwall Archaeological Unit. 198-. GRH 68/2/24/3/1, Mulfra Hill Cairns, 1:100.
---	SCO24681 - Cartographic materials: Cornwall Archaeological Unit. 198-. GRH 68/2/24/3/2, Mulfra Hill Cairns Explanatory Overlay, 1:100.
[1]	SCO5096 - Article in Journal: Edmonds, R. 1857. The Celtic and other Antiquities of the Land's End district of Cornwall. Archaeologia Cambrensis. 3 (Third Series). 350-368. 353.
[2]	SCO2892 - Bibliographic reference: Borlase, WC. 1872. Naenia Cornubiae. 61.
[3]	SCO3503 - Unpublished document: Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities. MS At RIC. VOL II, 20, PL 18.
[4]	SCO4314 - Bibliographic reference: Russell, V. 1971. West Penwith Survey. 20.
[5]	SCO4045 - Cartographic materials: Ordnance Survey. 1970s. 1:10,000 OS Map.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded

Associated Images

GRH 68/2/24/3/1-2 Combined — Annotated scale drawings (1:100) of several cairns on Mulfra Hill, undated.
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