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Description: | Chun Quoit is an early neolithic tomb, standing high on barren moorland near the Iron Age hillfort Chun Castle, and resembles a giant stone mushroom. William Borlase, the 18th-century Cornish antiquarian, gives the definition of the word quoit, "from the oblate and spreading form of the upper Stone (resembling a Discus) this Monument is in Cornwall called by the name of Quoit". Chun is derived from the Cornish 'chy-an-woone', meaning house on the downs. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Buckler, John Chessell | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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