Bant’s Carn

Bant’s Carn is a bronze age burial chamber. It is a large ‘entrance grave’, and one of 80 similar structures on the Isles of Scilly.

The carn is some 10 metres (33 feet) in length set on a hillside above the prehistoric settlement of Haling Down.

Excavations at the turn of the twentieth century found very little of interest save for some pottery and some piles of cremated human bones.

Bant’s Carn consists of a kerbed platform around a mound which contains the burial chamber. The entrance to the chamber is somewhat taller at approximately 1.5 metres (5 feet) than many similar carns of the sane age.

Source: 'The Old Stones' :The Negalithic Portal edited by Andy Burnham (ISBN:978-1-78678-154-3)