A small remembrance of something more solid: 172/365

Sunday, 31 August 2008

172/365

Posted by Helen at 22:46

Chûn Quoit.

2 comments:

sevans said...: A quick google search revealed that a 'quoit' is a tomb? Or is it a table?

What's the real story?; 2 September 2008 at 17:42
Helen said...: Dolmen, cromlech, quoit - they all mean the same thing and, yes, they're burial chambers. Most are neolithic (3000-4000 years old), and the thinking is that originally they would have been covered in a bank of earth (a barrow), but nobody's really sure.; 2 September 2008 at 19:01

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