Carwynnen Quoit

Carwynnen Quoit is a dolmen belonging to the Neolithic period, at Carwynnen near Camborne in west Cornwall [1]. It is also known as 'The Giant's Quoit', 'The Giant's Frying Pan', 'Pendarvis Quoit' and 'Pendarves Quoit' [1]. It collapsed in 1966 and was re-erected in 2014 [1]. Carwynnen Quoit is one of an ancient and rare group of monuments and can be found at Carwynnen in Cornwall [1]. 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 [1]. It is situated on a gentle west-facing slope between two small tributaries to the Red River [1]. 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 [1]. 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 [1].