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Carwynnen Quoit

reerected quoit

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I was there - I'm chairman of the Sustainable Trust who own it and re-erected it. It's been a wonderful project because of al the community involvement and wonderful volunteers who have helped. It's been several years of hard slog getting the permissions, funding etc. but we finally have a complete quoit. The atmosphere on the day was brilliant, everyone was so keen and happy to see it go back up. I was struck by how once we got the safety fencing down everyone wanted to rush up and touch the quoit. After that we had some great singing and the performane of a ballad we'd had written about the quoit. A magic day. The quoit is open to everyone now.

Love this. There are few things - in an archaeological context - sadder than a collapsed dolmen. Put 'em back up, I say.

I'll look to visit when next in Cornwall....

Well done Andy, to you and all involved.

Congratulations Andy. I wish more quoits / circles / standing stones etc were re-errected so we can see them in the way the builders intended.