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settlement comprising several dispersed hut circles. These structures have also been called a "barrow group" by John Barnatt Evidence of
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INTERPRETING LANDSCAPES: GEOLOGIES, TOPOGRAPHIES, IDENTITIES; EXPLORATIONS IN LANDSCAPE PHENOMENOLOGY 3, p409
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suggests they were intended to be seen as a group from the west and the east in order to "analogically
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streaming has also been found in the area that supports the suggestion of an ancient settlement.
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than other areas of Bodmin Moor due to some type of local anomaly. Archaeological
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Geograph Map Reference for Brown Gelly, Browngelly Downs, Cairns and Hut Circles
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was carried out over the area in the 1980s which suggested the remains of a
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Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall p. 236 & 237
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Gordon S. Maxwell; John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph (1983).
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Prehistoric Cornwall: the ceremonial monuments, p. 208
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The Modern Antiquarian Entry about Brown Gelly Cairns
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Hill, tor and ridge on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England
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Index


Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Brown Willy
Listing
Tump
Coordinates
50°31′27.74″N 4°32′52.21″W / 50.5243722°N 4.5478361°W / 50.5243722; -4.5478361
Brown Gelly is located in Cornwall
Cornwall
Bodmin Moor
OS grid
SX196727
Topo map
OS
Cornish
tor
ridge
Dozmary Pool
Bodmin Moor
Liskeard
hut circles
barrows
cairns
Christopher Tilley
granitic
autogenic alteration
aerial reconnaissance
prehistoric

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