These structures have also been called a "barrow group" by John Barnatt Evidence of flint production and tin streaming has also been found in the area that supports the suggestion of an ancient settlement. Archaeological aerial reconnaissance was carried out over the area in the 1980s which suggested the remains of a prehistoric settlement comprising several dispersed hut circles. The tor is made of a granitic rock that has less autogenic alteration than other areas of Bodmin Moor due to some type of local anomaly. They are prominent from a distance and Christopher Tilley suggests they were intended to be seen as a group from the west and the east in order to "analogically resemble or simulate tors". Heritage landscape visualisation: Harewood Estate 1999-01. Contributing Editor Future Publishing - freelance 1987-96. illustrator and writer for computer graphics publications 1985-96. Five cairns are located in a semi-circular arc along the ridge of Brown Gelly. Prehistoric Cornwall fieldwork and photography with John Barnatt 1979-81. Percy, Birchover Its Prehistoric and Druidical Remains, Wilfrid Edwards. Brown Gelly is a tor, hill and ridge near Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor near Liskeard in Cornwall, UK.Īt its foot lies Browngelly Downs, and the area has preserved various remains of hut circles, barrows and cairns. Barnatt, John, Stone Circles of the Peak, Turnstone: London 1978.
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