Trethevy Quoit 11
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bladup wrote:
Heee he, no but to use a little fear to get our date:>}but on a serious note the place does stand out because we can guess quite well compared to other places how old the Stone circles,henges, barrows, standing stones and Quoits around are but KAH has no comparison so we can't guess beyond things like stone shapes and position in the landscape which we've done yourselves, this is the case for a date i'd be putting forward Roy and i can't see how they could disagree with that reasoning, and if you could get a date from them it would be a big scoop for any future book you may do on the place.
That fact alone that it really is like nothing else seems to indicate to some people that it is not important but the selection of stones and its position in the landscape tells me a different story. When you stand on the north bank and realise what's around you stone circle wise to the north, east and south, with the stone littered hill to the west at Candra with cut stones lying around, you get a feeling of the importance of what you're stood on. But then 'feelings' aren't proof of anything of course as has been pointed out before but nevertheless we still get them.

Well beyond stone shapes the best case i can make for it having a neolithic/bronze age date is i once spent over a week walking from one neolithic/Bronze age site to the next on Bodmin moor and all i can say is it fitted in perfectly with everywhere else of a neolithic/bronze age date even though it was very different to anywhere else around, if i had to put forward my thoughts on what it is, i'd go for one hell of a big mortuary enclosure, a place were the bodies of the dead were left for the animals and birds to help in the defleshing process ready for the bones to be interred or cremated at one of the nearby barrows after been taken for rituals at the stone circles beforehand, it's good for the mind to speculate [or remember, whichever you choose].