Bosporthennis Quoit
The Bosporthennis Quoit is an approximately 5500 year old portal tomb from the Neolithic Age . It is located at Porthmeor in Cornwall in England . In contrast to other quoits in Cornwall, Bosporthennis is unusual in that the capstone is no longer on top, but the remnants of the surrounding hill, around 6.0 m in diameter and 0.8 m high, can still be seen.
The chamber of about 1.5 × 1.3 m consists of four remaining supporting stones, one of which rises about 1.5 m high. At some point in the past the capstone was reworked into a millstone on site , but not removed from the site.
During the excavation of 1872, shards of pottery and calcined bones were found.
Nearby is the Bosporthennis basement .
literature
- John Barnatt: Prehistoric Cornwall: The Ceremonial Monuments. Turnstone Press, Wellingborough 1982, ISBN 0855001291 .
- Ian McNeil Cooke: Standing Stones of the Land's End. Men-an-Tol Studio, Cornwall 1998, ISBN 0951237195 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 22.5 " N , 5 ° 35 ′ 32" W.