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Posted: 27 Jan 2018

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Chun Quoit

Chun Quoit
The cutest quoit in Cornwall (there are a few equally cute dolmens in Brittany and elsewhere in Europe).
Neolithic burial chamber; would have originally been buried completely under a mound of smaller stones and earth but 6,000 years of Cornish weather has easily disposed of all that!

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 Tanja - Loughcrew
Tanja - Loughcrew club
Here it is again...my favourite place to be buried, Andy ;)
6 years ago.
 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club
Ian,
Steve,
Judith,
Betty,
Marie-claire,
Tanja,
Thank you all!
6 years ago.
 Andy Rodker
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They were used to moving these heavy granite boulders because they had to clear the fields of them to plant anything at all! Muscle power and animal power! Anyway, they built up a mound of earth first and placed the stones on and around it. Then hollowed the centre for the burial and then re-covered the stones with smaller stones and more earth so that it would have looked exactly like a tumulus. (I think! I'm not an archaeologist!)
6 years ago.
 natur' ELLE
natur' ELLE club
superbe dolmen ! ***********
6 years ago.

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