Chûn Quoit

Chun Quoit is about 5500 year old dolmen from the Neolithic period and the best preserved Quoit in the county of Cornwall. Chun is derived from the Cornish Chy-an- Woone what home means over the lowlands. The Megalithic referred to in Cornwall and Wales Quoit are portal tombs.

Location

Chun Quoit is located west of Penzance between Pendeen and Great Bosullow and can be reached via a path that branches off on the road of Morvah after Bojewyan halfway left to the southeast. You can reach him via the Highway Boca Well Downs, if one is proposing Coming of Pendeen is 1.5 km from the road to the left towards the northeast. The Quoit is located on a ridge with views over the surrounding rolling hills on the open sea. It is likely that by the position a particular area should be claimed and the Community was bound close by made ​​here cults each other and to the area.

Nearby points of environment even more megaliths:

• Boscawen -Un
• Lanyon Quoit
• Mên-an -Tol
• Merry Maidens
• Mulfra Quoit
• Boskednan
• Tregeseal
• Entrance Grave of Tregiffian
• Zennor Quoit

An Iron Age settlement is situated 200 meters Chun Castle.

Construction

Chun Quoit was likely as other quoits also a portal grave and covered by a mound of earth, from its stone rim fixing residues are still present. The mushroom-shaped curved, slightly elliptical shaped cover plate which is supported by four 1.5 m high piers, has semi-axes of 3.3 m and 3.0 m in length and has a diameter of 80 cm at the thickest point on. In the southeast, access seems to have found that led to the chamber inside. Probably the mound at this site was uncovered and had an entrance area.

History of Research

1769 megalithic site was first mentioned in a publication of antiquarian William Borlase and illustrated with a drawing. Borlase said in his brief account also that the Cornish Dolmen due to the discus-shaped capstone, of a coupling ring (English Quoit ) reminds, are called quoits. 1864 made ​​John Thomas Blight in his book Churches of West Cornwall also an etching of Chun Quoit on. William Copeland Borlase 1872 delivered, a great-grandson of William Borlase, a more detailed description. He spoke of a circular embankment of stone and earthen material with 12 m diameter, which rose to the dolmen back and was limited by boundary stones, and made to adjacent drawing. It excavations were made that produced no significant findings. Despite the archaeological discoveries of modern research assumes that megaliths were used for a long time as a community graves. Even in the Bronze Age cremations to have taken place before or on these investments.