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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hendraburnick Quoit
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Camelford  Nearest Village: Davidstow
Map Ref: SX13218818
Latitude: 50.663256N  Longitude: 4.644364W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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TheCaptain visited on 13th Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Visited this site yesterday, and remarkably found it very easily, although an episode with a gate caused much amusement. Other than seeing details here, could only find notes which call it a disputed site. First thoughts are blimey, its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, mch of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, probably as a support to the capstone. So, my thoughts are this is a true ancient site, using what was naturally available as a starting point. I have since read that there are many cupmarks in the capstone - always good to have reason for another visit.

Hendraburnick Quoit
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by dodomad : The 'capstone' fully cleaned showing the rock art on its upper surface, with the concentration of cup-marks along the upper edge and radiating lines. Note that the indentation on the top left hand side was probably caused by an attempt to break the stone up. Photo credit: Andy M Jones (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hendraburnick 'Quoit', possibly a fallen Cornish Quoit but more likely some large stones that were propped into an arrangement in antiquity. With rock art on its top surface. Situated near to the source of the River Camel.

Rock art photo credit: Andy M Jones

From TheCaptain.
"Other than seeing details here, I could only find notes which call it a disputed site. My first thoughts are blimey, its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, much of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, probably as a support to the capstone.

So, my thoughts are this is a true ancient site, using what was naturally available as a starting point. I have since read that there are many cupmarks in the capstone - always good to have reason for another visit."

Note: Rock art clearest when viewed in low sunlight or by moonlight, also smashing of quartz veins, possibly significant in night time rituals. Photogrammetric recording revealed the site to be the most decorated stone in southern Britain, with the art being added to over time. Details in the comments on our page
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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : there are cupmarks on the capstone (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : Hendraburnick Quoit (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hendraburnick Quoit
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : My first thoughts are its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, much of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, possibly as a support to the capstone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hendraburnick Quoit
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : My first thoughts are its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, much of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, possibly as a support to the capstone. There are cupmarks on the large stone

Hendraburnick Quoit
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : My first thoughts are its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, much of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, possibly as a support to the capstone.

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by theCaptain : Down at the far side of the field are a couple of other lare stones in the hedge. Field clearance of natural rock or something more significant?

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The remains of Hendraburnick Quoit, The source of the river Camel is just to the South east [In the background].

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The huge capstone of Hendraburnick Quoit, The source of the river Camel is just to the South east.

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The ruins of Hendraburnick Quoit.

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Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup

Hendraburnick Quoit
Hendraburnick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The ruins of Hendraburnick Quoit, The source of the river Camel is just to the South east.

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Re: Hendraburnick Quoit by Anonymous on Thursday, 04 January 2018
When it rains the cupmarks at the top of the stone may have fed the channels and been a representation of the nearby source of the Camel river.

Graham E Hill
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Hendraburnick Quoit's carvings only visible in moonlight by AngieLake on Sunday, 09 July 2017
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Pubished 7th July 2017: Cornish stone monuments have carvings that are only visible in moonlight, investigation reveals.
An analysis of Hendraburnick Quoit in Cornwall revealed multiple carvings visible in moonlight or low sunlight - suggesting the stone was viewed at night
Archaeologists Dr Andy Jones of the Cornwall Archaeological Unit and Thomas Goskar found a total of 105 engravings on the axe-shaped stone
Dr Jones believes many more markings would be found at sites across the country if the monuments were looked at in a different light

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    Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’: recording and dating rock art in the west of Britain by Andy B on Friday, 21 July 2017
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    Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’: recording and dating rock art in the west of Britain
    Andy M. Jones and Thomas Goskar, July 2017

    In 2013 a small-scale excavation was carried at Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’, which is located north Cornwall. The project was undertaken to establish whether the site was a ruined megalith and to obtain dating for the cup-marks which had been recorded at the site. The excavation revealed that the ‘quoit’ was a large propped ‘axe-shaped’ stone that had been set upon a low platform of slates, and that a second fallen standing stone was located at the eastern end of the site. Subsequently, the site appears to have become the focus for the smashing of quartz blocks, as well as for the deposition of mostly fragmented artefacts. Two samples were submitted for radiocarbon dating which produced Late Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age determinations. During the fieldwork it became apparent that the rock art was far more extensive than had been thought, and that it was most evident when viewed in low sunlight from the south east or by moonlight. It is suggested that the smashed vein quartz may have been used during night time rituals. Photogrammetric recording revealed the site to be the most decorated stone in southern Britain and suggests that rather than being pre-planned, the art accreted over time.

    Paper not open access unfortunately:
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1751696X.2017.1341241
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Investigating rock art at Hendraburnick ‘Quoit’, Cornwall by Andy B on Wednesday, 18 February 2015
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The southwest of England is not well-known for its rock art: however, this may not be due to the physical lack of it, but rather that it has not been looked for. To amend this, a project was initiated to make a corpus of rock art in the region. It has so far recorded over 30 cup-mark sites (see Jones and Kirkham 2013, European Journal of Archaeology) and the number is still growing.

Hendraburnick was first described as a ruined megalithic tomb in 1911, but subsequent archaeologists have tended to dismiss the site as a natural collection of stones. Cup-markings were noted on the main stone, and it was for this reason that it was visited as part of the survey of Cornish rock art. It was immediately apparent that, while the exposed underlying bedrock was slate, the two stones comprising the ‘quoit’ were not naturally outcropping stones, but large
unshaped blocks of epidiorite or ‘greenstone’, a type of stone which was used for making axes throughout the Neolithic period. This was of interest, as it was also noted that both stones were distinctly naturally ‘axe-shaped’.

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http://www.prehistoricsociety.org/files/PAST_78_for_web.pdf
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Hendraburnick ‘quoit’: experiences and revelations of excavation by TheCaptain on Friday, 17 October 2014
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Hendraburnick ‘quoit’: experiences and revelations of excavation by Freya Lawson Jones

An article on some recent excavations can be found here .

Hendraburnick ‘quoit’ is a misnomer. It is in fact not a quoit at all, but a particularly striking and scenic propped stone, lying upon a gently rolling valley-side in Cornwall. It is a fascinating site, and aside from being a testament to the power of prehistoric people to shift these enormous stones, it also exhibits several ancient engravings known as cup-marks, which involve the hollowing out of rounded dimples in the rock.

It was these cup-marks which had sparked an initial interest in the site, as unlike other rock art sites of this type in the south, there was reason to believe that it could provide the first tangible dating for them. This was because it was in situ and had the potential for datable material to be recovered. Thus, it perfectly fitted the agenda of an ongoing project into rock art in the south west of England, to form a corpus (Andy M. Jones pers comm) of information about these little known sites. This is why Hendraburnick was the focus of much excitement in the summer of 2013, during some small-scale excavations run by the Cornwall Archaeological Society. It was only after a week of digging and investigations that the more prolific nature of Hendraburnick was fully appreciated.

It was during the latter half of the days spent working at Hendraburnick that the largest revelation was to occur. It was discovered that what had previously been thought to be only a few cup-marks, were actually just part of the whole design, and far more numerous. Once this had been noticed at ground level, a camera was elevated using a long pole to achieve an aerial shot of the rock art designs. After this had been highlighted, an afternoon sat atop the stone, meticulously peeling off lichen from the designs, revealed the extent of the art in subsequent photos. It was shown to cover most of the entire surface of the stone in long grooved lines radiating out and running down the stone from hollowed out cup-marks.

http://theposthole.org/read/article/298
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Re: Hendraburnick Quoit by TheCaptain on Friday, 17 October 2014
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Visited Sept 2014 on the way down to holiday in Padstow, and remarkably found it very easily, although an episode with a gate caused much amusement. Other than seeing details here, could only find notes which call it a disputed site.

My first thoughts are blimey, its a big old longbarrow with fallen chamber at SE end. Second thoughts are maybe not, much of this is natural.... Look closer, and the leaning stone beyond the big capstone is clearly not natural, and was once standing, probably as a support to the capstone.

So, my thoughts are this is a true ancient site, using what was naturally available as a starting point. I have since read that there are many cupmarks in the capstone - always good to have reason for another visit.
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Re: Hendraburnick Quoit by TheCaptain on Monday, 09 September 2013
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