Photos of the Beautiful Neolithic Cornish Chun Quoit

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Photos of the Beautiful Neolithic Cornish Chun Quoit – A stone burial chamber dolmen near Morvah on the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, England. Photos by Photographer Paul E Williams. (TIP – use the icons below the slideshow for thumbnail photos and info)

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Photos of the Beautiful Neolithic Cornish Chun Quoit

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photos of Chun or Chûn Quoit, a megalithic burial dolmen from the Neolithic period, circa 2400 BC, near Morvah on the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall, England.

Chun Quoit

Standing alone high on Chun Moor is the pretty little Chun Quoit that was once a stone chamber at the heart of a burial mound 35 ft (11mts) in diameter.

Chun Quoit has a large mushroom shaped capstone which is about 3.3 m (11 ft) by 3 m (10 ft) and 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in) thick. This is supported on four upright stone orthostats, about 2 m (7 ft) high. When covered this burial chamber would have been linked to the outside by a long tunnel which gives such Neolithic burial mounds the name of portal tombs or portal graves.

Over the last 4000 years the earth around the Chun Quoit has been washed away leaving the stone burial chamber standing.

Little is known about the burial practices of Neolithic Britain’s. Evidence suggesting that they worshiped their ancestor has been found in the archaeological examination of Neolithic burial mounds in Orkney.

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