Lanyon Quoit - British Stone Age Dolmen
by Mark Tisdale
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Lanyon Quoit - British Stone Age Dolmen
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Mark Tisdale
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To me there's something genuinely magical about standing in the presence of our prehistoric past. These relics of a long lost society are just tiny windows into an ancient world. We don't entirely understand their meaning, but I think many of us long to know more about those people.
This bit of stone age prehistory is Lanyon Quoit, a dolmen standing in the fields of Cornwall. As cool as it looks, I've read that in fact it's a shadow of its former self. After standing for thousands of years, a storm in the 1800s knocked it down. Locals re-erected it but shorter and with only three legs instead of its original four.
I've also read there's some question as to whether this was the remains of a chamber tomb or some other sort of monument. Consensus seems to lean to the latter at the moment.
Whatever the case, these are the sort of monuments that dot the landscape of Britain and Ireland. From humble lone standing stones to the likes of Stonehenge, these ancient monuments are packed with mystery. But standing there, I always feel like the people who built them long ago left us a message there somewhere. Do you know that hazy feeling of almost understanding but not quite?
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August 21st, 2013
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