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Chambered Tomb menu
4000 to 2500 BC |
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Chûn Quoit
Situated on high ground with panoramic views,
four large uprights support an irregular capstone to form a small
chamber surrounded by a low roughly circular mound with traces of
kerbstones. |
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Trethevy Quoit
Trethevy is considered to be the best preserved quoit
in Cornwall and one of the most impressive of its type in Britain.
Sited on a promontory overlooking the confluence
of streams which flow southwards to become the River Seaton; the
northern skyline is dominated by Caradon Hill and the granite massif of
Minions Moor. |
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A chambered tomb is a megalithic structure used for communal burial
during the Neolithic period. Megalithic means ‘made from large
stones’ and these sites consist of a number of large stones set
upright supporting a massive horizontal capstone to form a small
chamber which was used to house the remains of the dead. Some may
originally have been set within a stony mound or cairn. In Celtic
areas they are known as quoits or dolmens. |
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