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Natural PlacesSite Name: Leskernick Quoit Alternative Name: Leskernick Propped Stone, Leskernick Pseudo-quoit
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Launceston  Nearest Village: Altarnun
Map Ref: SX1827980202
Latitude: 50.593189N  Longitude: 4.568806W
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
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 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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Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by Sara2332 : Solstice sunset 20/06/24 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Near to the top of Leskernick Hill is a propped stone, which is thought to be a manmade site of ancient provenance - once thought to be a sort of dolmen, or quoit in Cornwall hence its name. It consists of a deltoid rock slab propped up on the main surface of a smooth rock platform, which looks possibly natural, but all I have read suggests that it has been put there with human hands.

David Shepherd adds:
Two props and one point-of-contact.
Well known from Tilley’s work (Tilley, C, 1996. The powers of rock: topography and monument construction on Bodmin Moor, World Archaeology, 28(2), 161–76).
One of the rocks underneath the slab is not propping and is not original.
Crack-seal veins indicate the slab originated as part of the outcrop itself. Removals beneath the outcrop have produced a ‘propped’ promontory. Details of these observations are in Shepherd, D, 2018. A note on the Leskernick propped stone. Cornish Archaeology 56, 2017, pp199-202

Note: The solstice sunset from last night, thanks Sara!
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Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by TheCaptain : On top of Leskernick Hill, at the Quoit. Thats the magnificent Brown Willy behind, with the tops of Roughtor peeking above the ridgetop to the right. (4 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The propped stone at Leskernick Hill Settlement. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by TheCaptain : Leskernick Quoit seen here looking south down the valley of the river Fowey (Vote or comment on this photo)

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The propped stone at Leskernick Hill Settlement. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by Bladup

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by DavidShepherd : Leskernick Pseudo-quoit. Photo shows the 'double propping' effect.

Leskernick Quoit
Leskernick Quoit submitted by Bladup : The propped stone at Leskernick Hill Settlement.

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 79m SSE 164° Leskernick 2* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (SX1829880125)
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 588m SE 131° Leskernick* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX18717980)
 651m ESE 117° Leskernick Hill Row* Stone Row / Alignment (SX1884979885)
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Re: Leskernick Propped Stone by Andy B on Wednesday, 29 November 2017
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THE QUOIT by Christopher Tilley

The 'quoit' on top of Leskernick hill is visible from long distances away to the south, from Codda to the west about 1 km distant but not from the north and the east. Approaching Leskernick from the north it is the large cairn that dominates the skyline. The quoit is sighted on the skyline from the southern stone circle, just visible from the stone row terminal but disappears out of view as one approaches the northern stone circle. It must have been positioned to be seen from the south as one approaches the hill.

The quoit somewhat resembles in form a Neolithic burial chamber, hence the term. It consists of a roughly triangular shaped slab 2.8 m long, 1.8 m wide and 0.3 m thick propped up at an angle by three small boulders on top of a long linear exposed rock outcrop. This creates a box through which the horizon to the north can be seen. The dying rays of the midsummer sun shine through this box just before it disappears below the horizon. The long axis of the perched stone points towards the Rough Tor summit and cairns to the north-west. The precise antiquity of this structure is difficult to determine. The weathering patterns on the rock suggest that it is very old and Peter Herring has argued on the basis of astronomical alignments with a possible long barrow to the north-west of the Beacon and below Leskernick hill, that it may be Late Neolithic in date i.e. the oldest structure on Leskernick hill.

The relationship between the Quoit and the Bronze Age settlements on Leskernick hill suggests that this may indeed be the case. Fig. 2 shows the intervisibility envelope of the Quoit i.e. the area from which it is visible on Leskernick hill. It is not visible from any of the houses in the southern settlement but can be seen from the majority of those in the western settlement with the exceptions of 1, 2 and 4 to the far north and those in the southern compound. From the main western compound the window is in full view. The only house where this is not the case is the isolated house 3, closest to the Quoit and due west from it down-slope. We know that the main western compound is the earliest part of the hill to have been settled. The fact that the Quoit and its window box are both prominent and visible from here seems highly suggestive that the houses were positioned so as to be in view of the Quoit.

More, with photos here
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/leskernick/articles/narrative/text/quoit.html
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Leskernick Propped Stone by Andy B on Wednesday, 04 October 2017
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From 'Stone Worlds' book by Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton and Chris Tilley.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0EsJpUfkKAoC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA83&dq=the+propped+stone&source=bl&ots=oJkgFXvahn&sig=gFu89EeVhZg4bx7uOEZf5a8Kk-g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f9ceU6LnJ-yf7gaMjYDwCg#v=onepage&q=the%20propped%20stone&f=false

With thanks to Moss (TMA) for the link
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