Giant's Quoit

The site was first recorded by the Welsh antiquarian Edward Lhuyd around 1700 and a symbol of the cromlech appeared on Martyn's 1748 map of Cornwall. These are early references to ancient sites. The first plan and elevation was by Cornish antiquarian William Borlase in 1769. In his 1803 work Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, the English naturalist James Sowerby illustrated a yellow dust lichen, later identified as Chrysothrix chlorina, that was growing on the structure. In 1840, the field was recorded as the Frying Pan Field on the Tithe Apportionment Schedule. In 1891, it was recorded that "curious marks" had been noticed some years previously, "on a stone under a thorn tree,…

Carwynnen Quoit is one of an ancient and rare group of monuments and can be found at Carwynnen in Cornwall. It is a portal dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period, built around 3000 BC, one of the few Cornish portal dolmens to be found outside the Penwith peninsula. It is situated on a gentle west-facing slope between two small tributaries to the Red River. The dolmen stands to a height of 1.5 metres with a capstone measuring around 3.3 metres long by 2.5 metres wide and 30 cm thick and weighs around 10 tons.