<< Our Photo Pages >> Pawton Quoit - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in England in Cornwall
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pawton QuoitCountry: England County: Cornwall Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Wadebridge Nearest Village: St Breock
Map Ref: SW96586960
Latitude: 50.490805N Longitude: 4.869203W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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lucasn visited on 14th Jul 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3
markj99 visited on 13th Oct 2013 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 1 Despite the difficulty in locating Pawton Quoit, it is worth the effort to view one of the most impressive quoits in Cornwall.
TheCaptain visited on 20th Sep 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 3 This really is a bit of a devil to get to, and it makes me wonder whether I really have been to it twice before, or just looked for it! I'm 99% sure I visited once in the 1970s with Mum and Dad, and then again in the 1980s, but perhaps not right to the stones that time. Taking the little lane southeast from the valley below Nanscow, the lane is signposted to some kennels, and after a short distance turns to the right and climbs uphill, getting narrower and more overgrown, but it is still easily driveable all the way up and over the hill to Haycrock farm (I dont know if it is private at this point). The trouble is there is almost nowhere to park or turn round, and no obvious place to get into the right field for the quoit. I ended up turning and then driving almost right back down to the bottom to park and then walk back up to a place where many people obviously climb over the wall to visit the quoit. Its a bit of a tricky wall to get over with a fair drop down into the field, so I told Dad not to come and stay outside the field till I returned. The field had no crop in it, so I decided I was OK for a visit to the dolmen, which could be seen as an overgrown mess several hundred yards across the field. When I got to it, it at first looked like there would be no way through to the stones, as the whole thing was surrounded by masses of gorse, brambles, ferns, stinging nettles etc, but around the far side there was a trampled down way in. The stones are all very angular and sharp cornered, and of a very pale stone. The capstone is a delight, perched above its chamber on several smaller stones, in some respects giving the impression of teeth below it! The capstone has broken, and about a third of it lies flat to the ground at one end, amongst a bit of a jumble of stone and a tree now happily growing in amongst it all. With all the jungle growing here, its difficult to make out what the arrangement really was, but it is a bit of a delight, and has some spectacular views to the north over the Camel Estuary and east to the heights of Bodmin Moor and Wadebridge down in the valley below. I never really felt at ease here, possibly because of leaving Dad and the car so far off, so after taking several photos from all angles, trudged back to the field wall where the way over was, only to find that Dad was no longer there. Where is he? whats he doing? I cant get out of this field without some help. Hmmm, still no sign of Dad, and he clearly can't hear me yelling, so need a plan B. Looking around, a bit further up along the wall, and there is a lower section with a tree nearby which I can use to hold and climb up onto the top, before making my way along to the gap and then down off the wall and onto the lane. Theres Dad way down the lane looking for blackberries and whacking things with a stick, oblivious to my plight! No doubt I had some sharp words on the walk back down to the car, before jokingly suggesting looking for the Nanscow inscribed stone, and then heading off to The Ring O'Bells at St Issey for a well deserved pint.
Bladup celticmaiden55 hamish ocifant cazzyjane have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 4 Access: 2.33
A massive capstone rests horizontally on three uprights with a further three uprights making up the rest of the chamber. The whole thing would have been covered by a barrow.
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