Qualla: Chun Quoit https://qualla.com/chun-quoit en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Chun Quoit https://qualla.com/chun-quoit Chun Quoit: Introduction https://qualla.com/chun-quoit/ Photo credit Jowaninpensans, CC BY-SA 4.0. Four men, possibly six, raised the capstone of Chun Quoit around 2400 BC. They had no metal tools to work with. Bronze was still centuries away, iron a full two millennia further off. They cut and shaped granite using granite, hammered slab against slab, dressed the great mushroom-domed top stone until it was 11 feet long and 10 feet wide and just under three feet thick at its centre. Then they propped it on four upright slabs, levered it into position perhaps seven feet off the ground, and walked away. Forty-four centuries later the capstone is still sitting where they put it. Every other quoit in West Penwith has fallen at some point and been re-erected by Victorian antiquarians or modern conservators. Chun Quoit never moved.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/gbgv-chun-quoit-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chun Quoit: A House for the Dead https://qualla.com/chun-quoit/ Photo credit Gary Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0. Quoits, also called dolmens or cromlechs, are Neolithic burial chambers, the surviving stone heart of structures that originally sat under earth mounds. Chun Quoit was once covered by a round barrow some 35 feet in diameter; the chamber inside, sealed by the great capstone, would...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/gbgv-chun-quoit-a-house-for-the-dead.mp3 0:06 2 full Chun Quoit: The Standing Stones of Penwith https://qualla.com/chun-quoit/ Photo credit Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Chun Quoit is one node in a dense Neolithic landscape. Within a few miles lie Lanyon Quoit, Mulfra Quoit, Men-an-Tol with its famous holed stone, and Men Scryfa with its early-medieval inscription. The rocky outline of Carn Kenidjack, a granite tor a couple of miles to the south-...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/gbgv-chun-quoit-the-standing-stones-of-penwith.mp3 0:06 3 full Chun Quoit: Two Millennia Before the Castle https://qualla.com/chun-quoit/ Photo credit David Johnson [1], CC BY-SA 3.0. Chun Quoit predates the great Iron Age ringfort of Chun Castle, 800 feet to the east, by two thousand years. The Iron Age builders who raised those concentric walls in the fourth century BC arrived at a hilltop that already had a sacred monument on it, already had stories attache...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/gbgv-chun-quoit-two-millennia-before-the-castle.mp3 0:06 4 full Chun Quoit: Old Denbras the Hurler https://qualla.com/chun-quoit/ Photo credit Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0. The folklore around Chun has its own version of the past. The Giants of Towednack records a tradition that the castle on Morvah Downs was once held by a giant named Old Denbras, called the Hurler for his skill at throwing stones in the wrestling games. Denbras was killed in a wre...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/chun-quoit-wp/gbgv-chun-quoit-old-denbras-the-hurler.mp3 0:06 5 full