Pulling things out of the past. Trevethy Quoit is probably one of the strangest cromlechs in Cornwall. Sitting in a field by a row of houses with a hole in the capstone and a squared entrance maybe, reminding you of similar Russian holed cromlechs. Roy Goutte is an amateur archaeologist to his very bones. Turning over a problem in his mind till he eventually found a solution,
I have walked round a stone circle with him, and noted the triangulated shape of some stones, could they be female?
It is called a Portal Dolmen because of the 'doorway' and is one of those strange burial places of the Neolithic age. The following photos I took in 2014, and no I wasn't drunk at the time, as I definitely thought odd angles would bring out the weirdness of the stones.
Trethevy Quoit: Cornwall’s Megalithic Masterpiece | The Heritage Trust
If you go to The Cornish Bird website you will find further explanations of how the word developed for quoit.
Isn't that interesting! How do they protect these structures from vandals and graffiti artists? I'm amazed they have lasted so very long and have never been damaged or destroyed, Thelma.
ReplyDeleteWell vandals and graffiti artists are a rare find in the countryside Ellen ;) they tend to stick to the towns. They have lasted, firstly as being seen as something sacred and secondly because local farmers could not move them.
DeleteAs beyond belief as the space stuff I recently wrote about. DIfferent timescale, but still unimaginable.
ReplyDeletePeople have pondered how did they do it? I think community and a knowledge of how to drag heavy stones and then put them up was probably the same as building a cathedral in medieval times. Technically humans got clever over time, we seem to strive to always improve Tasker.
DeleteThey are crazy rock arrangements, perhaps a good alternative to the highly managed Stonehenge.
ReplyDeleteWell apart from the great temple of Stonehenge stones the surrounding district was a great necropolis of barrows but it is true that the public 'awareness' of the place is centered on the stones and English Heritage make plenty of money out of it Andrew.
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