quoit Archives - Explore Cornwall https://explorecornwall.org/tag/quoit/ & The Cornish Abroad Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:59:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://explorecornwall.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-Explore-Cornwall-Colourless-32x32.png quoit Archives - Explore Cornwall https://explorecornwall.org/tag/quoit/ 32 32 164779662 Lanyon Quoit of West Penwith https://explorecornwall.org/lanyon-quoit-of-west-penwith/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:57:16 +0000 https://explorecornwall.org/?p=4759 Standing in the fields of West Penwith is Lanyon Quoit, one of Cornwall’s most well known archaeological monuments. Thought to be Early Neolithic (4000-3500 BCE), […]

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Standing in the fields of West Penwith is Lanyon Quoit, one of Cornwall’s most well known archaeological monuments.

Lanyon Quoit

Thought to be Early Neolithic (4000-3500 BCE), Lanyon Quoit is one of around eight such structures in this part of Cornwall, with West Penwith being particularly littered with monuments such as these. They were designed as burial chambers, spirituals places shamans visited to consult with ancestors or possibly a place for the dead to be placed for carrion. 

Lanyon Quoit

The quoit present today is not actually the original, or at least not all of it. It would have once consisted of four upright stones and a large stone across the top. In 1815 it collapsed, damaging some of the stones. The quoit was rebuilt in 1824, although at a different angle and with only three upright stones. 

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