Condolden Barrow is a large prehistoric burial mound on high ground inland from Tintagel. Its position gives wide views across the surrounding valleys and towards the north Cornish coast. The scale and placement of the mound suggest that it was built as a significant monument in the landscape, intended to be seen from a distance. Although later stories connect it with figures from Arthurian tradition, the barrow itself belongs to a much earlier prehistoric period. The monument is a large bowl barrow, measuring about 26 metres across and nearly 3 metres high. A partially visible quarry ditch survives around its base, marking where material was dug to build the mound. An Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar now stands on top, showing how prominent the barrow remained in later landscape survey. Although the mound has been disturbed in the past, probably by antiquarian digging or stone robbing, much of it still survives and may preserve archaeological evidence. Bowl barrows were built across Britain during the Early Bronze Age, roughly between 2400 and 1500 BC. They were usually made from earth, stone, or rubble and covered single or multiple burials. Some later became important landmarks, reused or reinterpreted long after their original funerary purpose had been forgotten. Condolden Barrow fits this pattern well: a prehistoric burial monument that later gathered new meanings because of its size, visibility, and location near Tintagel. The barrow has strong associations with legend. Thomas Hardy imagined it as the burial place of Queen Isolde in The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall, drawing on the story of Tristan and Isolde. Others have connected the site with Cador, a 6th century King of Cornwall who appears in medieval Arthurian literature as a companion of Arthur, sword bearer, and guardian of Guinevere. These associations are literary and traditional rather than archaeological, but they show how the monument became absorbed into Tintagel’s wider Arthurian landscape. Place name evidence adds further interest. In 1298, the surrounding land was recorded as mora de Gondolvaen, meaning “moor of the holed stone.” This may suggest that another prehistoric feature, perhaps a dolmen, quoit, or holed stone, once stood nearby but has since disappeared. In later centuries, the barrow was known locally as Cadon Barrow and stood beside a road between Trenale and Tintagel. It was used as a survey point, became part of an enclosed farming landscape, and was also used for open air Bible Christian meetings. Condolden Barrow therefore combines prehistoric burial, lost landscape features, local history, and later Arthurian interpretation in one prominent site.