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Image Credit: A. Brookes (20.6.2012)Posted by thesweetcheat 19th July 2012ce |
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| probably my favourite quoit in Cornwall. I've got an etched print ofthis by Ian McNeill Cooke on the wall ! |
Posted by Meic19th July 2012ce |
| Where I'm sitting I have an Ian Cooke print of Sancreed Church in my eyeline. I know the one of the quoit you mean. I agree about Mulfra too, it tends to be the quietest as well. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 19th July 2012ce |
| It is quiet even in the middle of summer, i feel very lucky to now live nearby and be able to walk to it, and just hang out a bit and then maybe pop though bodrifty settlement and up to 9 maidens of boskednan [which is clearly seen from mulfra], it's like walking though time. |
Posted by bladup20th July 2012ce |
| You are indeed lucky. Did you know about the fallen standing stone to the south? Unfortunately I didn't realise it was there the day I took the pic above, only found out a couple of days later. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 20th July 2012ce |
| Yes thanks, last time i was there i saw it [before i saw it in mm], so didn't know it was a fallen standing stone [it stood out because of the burning], but from there i saw more stones so i carried on and just before the hill goes more steeply down there is a lovely hut circle and enclosure site, it's only a few hundred yards from the quoit, it's not the one in your photo and i've visited lots around the hill but further away, this one is so close, the hut circle seemed more like a late neolithic bronze age one than an iron age one, just maybe someone to do with the quoit once lived there, so now when i go back i'll visit the fallen standing stone knowing what it is, you know what it's like!!!! |
Posted by bladup 21st July 2012ce |
| Didn't know about that either and yes, I know exactly what it's like! What do you make of the funny square "chamber" down the hill from the quoit? It's definitely man-made but I couldn't work out what it was at all. |
Posted by thesweetcheat 22nd July 2012ce |
| Definitely man made, and has big stones in walling, but different to other neolithic/ bronze age or iron age homes/ or parts of homes around, it looks old but i wouldn't like to guess it's age, all in all a bit of a mystery, it does look like it may have been some sort of shelter [if it had a roof]. |
Posted by bladup 22nd July 2012ce |
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