Locations of Cornish cairns in relation to the Rough Tor Effect
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Abstract
Hundreds of round cairns and barrows survive on the granite uplands of Bodmin Moor, with hundreds more beyond the Moor, including along the Cornish coast. We posit that their distribution is far from random, or related merely to the territories of Late Neolithic and early Bronze Age people, especially as many Cornish cairns and barrows do not contain burials. Most of those in east Cornwall enjoy a direct sightline to Rough Tor, and Stowe’s Hill is visible from many of the remainder. Cairns were also built on Rough Tor itself. Siting cairns and barrows within the viewsheds of these sacred hills infers a late prehistoric acknowledgement of their ritual supremacy. The accretion of ceremonial monuments on these hills and in the viewshed of Rough Tor and, to a lesser degree, Stowe’s Hill shows that they had been sacred for millennia, from the Middle Neolithic onwards. The placing of cairns and barrows within the viewshed of these sacred hills is supported by the fact that in large areas of east Cornwall from which neither hill is visible there are few or no cairns or barrows, leading to barrow voids. In a very few cases, alternative sacred hills appear to have been sought.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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