Brane Barrow

The Cairns largely deprived of his Entrance Grave ( input grave ) of Brane is in pasture, about two kilometers southwest of Sancreed in Cornwall in England. Entrance graves are in England only in Cornwall (14) and on the Isles of Scilly ( 80 ) found.

William Borlase wrote that he called the " Chapel Euny Barrow " (now called Brane ) discovered in 1863, while he probably visited Carn Euny. He realized as brane structure similar to the system of Pennance, he had visited before. In 1982 Brane was still considered one of the best preserved tombs in the UK, but seven years later, the curbs were removed and shifted the hill material by cattle. 1995 Brane has been restored with new granite curbs and filling up the hill.

With a diameter of about 4.7 m of the cairn of Brane ( as Bosiliack ) is a small example of its genre, the majority of the tombs entrance is between six and twelve meters measured round hills. The hill was taken by a ring of heavy, continuous boundary stones of pink and gray granite that lie with the exception of a stone at the back of the megalithic site. This is also the highest stone of the enclosure, which is shown standing upright in one of the Borlase stitches, so this was probably the original condition. The material of the slightly oval mound consists of earth and stones.

Access to the chamber is through a wide gap between the curbs. Some of the chambers of this type are covered throughout their length and some, including Brane, have an open-top area, which extends from the curb edge to the covered chamber area. The western outer plate of the side wall sheets reaches up to the curb ring. The eastern outer plate is missing.

A typical feature of the Entrance graves is that their chambers extend above the center out into the hills into it. In Brane the chamber with the open transition region is 3.7 m long, while the Cairn has 4.7 m diameter. The chamber consists of two large rectangular panels on each side, an intermediate set back plate and two large seated as falling ceiling tiles. This type of chamber construction with large plates differs from the investment of Pennance where only dry masonry, or of Tregiffian, where a combination of both types was used.

Glyn Daniel considers it possible that a third capstone the chamber covered up to the curb edge, and arranges the facility in its category D of the straight chambers.