Tregiffian Burial Chamber
The Tregiffian Burial Chamber is a Neolithic or early Bronze Age chambered cairn. It is near Lamorna in west Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is a rare form of a passage grave, known as an Entrance grave.Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Pipers and Tater Du Lighthouse.
The Pipers
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The Pipers is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Tregiffian Burial Chamber.
Tater Du Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tater Du Lighthouse is Cornwall's most recently built lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse came out of the tragedy of losing a small Spanish coaster called the Juan Ferrer on 23 October 1963, on the nearby Boscawen Point, the vessel capsized with the loss of 11 lives. Tater Du Lighthouse is situated 1 mile southeast of Tregiffian Burial Chamber.
Boscawen-Un
Photo: Waterborough, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boscawen-Ûn is a Bronze Age stone circle close to St Buryan in Cornwall, UK. It consists of nineteen upright stones in an ellipse with another, leaning, middle stone just south of the centre. Boscawen-Un is situated 2 miles northwest of Tregiffian Burial Chamber.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Loy’s Cove and Lamorna.
St Loy’s Cove
Locality
Photo: Row17, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Loy's Cove is a small wooded valley and beach in the civil parish of St Buryan in Cornwall, England, UK. It is located two miles to the south of St Buryan churchtown, and between Penberth and Lamorna.
Lamorna
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lamorna is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on the Penwith peninsula approximately 4 miles south of Penzance. Lamorna became popular with the artists of the Newlyn School, including Alfred Munnings, Laura Knight and Harold Knight, and is also known for former residents Derek and Jean Tangye who farmed land and wrote "The Minack Chronicles".
Castallack
Hamlet
Photo: Alan Simkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castallack is a hamlet in the civil parish of St Buryan, Lamorna and Paul in west Cornwall, England, UK. It is on a minor road between Sheffied and Lamorna.
Tregiffian Burial Chamber
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Cornwall, South West England, England, UK
- Categories: chamber tomb, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: St Buryan, West Cornwall, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.06435° or 50° 3′ 52″ northLongitude
-5.59195° or 5° 35′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C2P3C75+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 2927699676OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q2451071
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Tregiffian Burial Chamber” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “泰格芬石室墓”
- Cornish: “Hirvedh Tregughyon”
- German: “Tregiffian”
- Welsh: “Hirvedh Tregughyon”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gûn Rith Menhir and Boscawen-Ros East.
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