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Lanyon Quoit (Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech) — Links

A Cornish Sourcebook


Engraving of Lanyon Cromlech and the Cheesewring, 1813.

Land's End Peninsula — Links

A Cornish Sourcebook


Engraving of Chun, Lanyon and Zennor Cromlechs, 1857.

The Merry Maidens (Stone Circle) — Links

A Cornish Sourcebook


Engraving of "Dance-Maine", 1804

Holed Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes

"About 65 paces exactly north of Rosmodreuy Circle is a flat stone 6 inches thick at a medium, 2 foot 6 inches wide and 5 foot high; 15 inches below the top it has a hole 6 inches diameter, quite through....In the adjoining hedge I perceived another, holed in the same manner."

William Borlase - Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall - 1st edition, printed by W Jackson, 1754.
Now where the hell did I put that compass?

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