Brown Gelly

Brown Gelly
Brown Gelly Cairn
Highest point
Elevation342 m (1,122 ft)
Prominence74 m (243 ft)
Parent peakBrown Willy
ListingTump
Coordinates50°31′27.74″N 4°32′52.21″W / 50.5243722°N 4.5478361°W / 50.5243722; -4.5478361
Geography
Brown Gelly is located in Cornwall
Brown Gelly
Brown Gelly
Location of Brown Gelly on Bodmin Moor within Cornwall
LocationBodmin Moor, Cornwall, England, UK
OS gridSX196727
Topo mapOS Landranger 201

Brown Gelly (Cornish: Bronn Geliow) 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

References

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  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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