Brown Gelly

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Brown Gelly
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Brown Gelly Cairn
Highest point
Elevation 342 m (1,122 ft)
Prominence 74 m (243 ft)
Parent peak Brown Willy
Listing Tump
Coordinates 50°31′27.74″N4°32′52.21″W / 50.5243722°N 4.5478361°W / 50.5243722; -4.5478361 Coordinates: 50°31′27.74″N4°32′52.21″W / 50.5243722°N 4.5478361°W / 50.5243722; -4.5478361
Geography
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Brown Gelly
Location of Brown Gelly on Bodmin Moor within Cornwall
Location Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, UK
OS grid SX196727
Topo map OS Landranger 201

Brown Gelly is a tor, hill and ridge near Dozmary Pool on Bodmin Moor near Liskeard in Cornwall, UK. [1] [2]

At its foot lies Browngelly Downs, and the area has preserved various remains of hut circles, barrows and cairns. [3] Five cairns are located in a semi-circular arc along the ridge of Brown Gelly. 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". [4] 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. [5] 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. [6] These structures have also been called a "barrow group" by John Barnatt [7] Evidence of flint production and tin streaming has also been found in the area that supports the suggestion of an ancient settlement. [8]

Brown Gelly from Pinnockshill Road on Pinnockshill - geograph.org.uk - 710490.jpg
Brown Gelly from Pinnockshill

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References

  1. ↑ Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1960). Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall p. 236 & 237.
  2. ↑ Rita Margaret Barton (1964). An introduction to the geology of Cornwall, p. 144. Truro Bookshop.
  3. ↑ Claude Berry (1971). Portrait of Cornwall, p 48. Hale. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Christopher Tilley (2010). INTERPRETING LANDSCAPES: GEOLOGIES, TOPOGRAPHIES, IDENTITIES; EXPLORATIONS IN LANDSCAPE PHENOMENOLOGY 3, p409. Left Coast Press. p. 355. ISBN   978-1-59874-374-6.
  5. ↑ Henry Woodward (1961). Geological magazine, P. 429. Cambridge University Press.
  6. ↑ Gordon S. Maxwell; John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph (1983). The Impact of aerial reconnaissance on archaeology. Council for British Archaeology. ISBN   978-0-906780-24-4.
  7. ↑ John Barnatt (1982). Prehistoric Cornwall: the ceremonial monuments, p. 208. Turnstone Press. ISBN   978-0-85500-129-2 . Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  8. ↑ Robin Davidson (1978). Cornwall. Batsford. ISBN   978-0-7134-0588-0.
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