Qualla: Brane Barrow https://qualla.com/brane-barrow en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/brane-barrow-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Brane Barrow https://qualla.com/brane-barrow Brane Barrow: Introduction https://qualla.com/brane-barrow/ Photo credit William Copeland Borlase, Public domain. It is roughly twenty feet across, and it has been sitting in a low Cornish pasture for somewhere between three and four thousand years. The farmer in 1863 told the archaeologist that he had not knocked it down because the little stone chamber inside made a useful shelter for his sheep and pigs. That practical kindness, repeated through generations of west Penwith farmers, is the reason Brane Barrow survives at all. It is now considered one of the smallest and best-preserved Neolithic and Bronze Age burial monuments in Britain, a perfect miniature of a form that was once common across western Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and now exists in only a handful of recognisable examples.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/brane-barrow-wp/gbgu-brane-barrow-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Brane Barrow: The Smallest Survivor https://qualla.com/brane-barrow/ Photo credit William Copeland Borlase, Public domain. Brane Barrow sits 290 metres southwest of Brane End Farm, near a low-lying patch of pasture close to the upper Lamorna River. The mound is a circular cairn of earth and stones about 20 feet across, retained at its edge by a kerb of large granite blocks. Inside is a single rectang...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/brane-barrow-wp/gbgu-brane-barrow-the-smallest-survivor.mp3 0:06 2 full Brane Barrow: An Old Tradition of Reuse https://qualla.com/brane-barrow/ Photo credit William Copeland Borlase, Public domain. Entrance graves of the Scillonian type date to the later Neolithic and Bronze Age, roughly 2500 to 1000 BC. They are characteristic of a small zone of western Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and almost nowhere else. The basic recipe is consistent: a low circular mound of rubble ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/brane-barrow-wp/gbgu-brane-barrow-an-old-tradition-of-reuse.mp3 0:06 3 full Brane Barrow: Borlase, the Pigs, and the Farmer https://qualla.com/brane-barrow/ Photo credit William Copeland Borlase, Public domain. The barrow was formally recorded in 1863 by William Copeland Borlase, a Cornish antiquarian following in his great-grandfather's footsteps. Borlase was actually in the area to investigate the underground passages of Carn Euny, the nearby Iron Age fogou and courtyard-house village...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/u/brane-barrow-wp/gbgu-brane-barrow-borlase-the-pigs-and-the-farmer.mp3 0:06 4 full Brane Barrow: Visiting the Stones https://qualla.com/brane-barrow/ Photo credit William Copeland Borlase, Public domain. Today Brane Barrow can be visited with permission from Brane farm. There are no information boards, no fences, no ticket office. You walk down a Cornish lane between high hedge banks, past granite gateposts and clumps of foxgloves, and the barrow appears in a paddock looking, if ...

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