This site is an archetypal dolmen, and is probably visited by most visitors to Cornwall with even the vaguest of interests in prehistoric monuments. The long mound is in an unrecognisable state, and the structure of the dolmen has been rebuilt after the stones fell in a storm in 1812. The capstone, at 13 and one half tons, is the largest in Cornwall. William Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall shows that in 1769 it was still possible to ride a horse underneath the capstone.
| Visit date: | 10/08/1999 |
| Reporter: | Andy Gates |
| Email: | andy@project-people.com |
| Website: | www.hollyking.freeserve.co.uk |
| Purpose: | First visit |
| Comments: | Busy site, close to road. Some tourists tried to climb on capstone but it wasn't co-operating - fairly hostile and uninviting, injured one of them and they left. Site felt dead - just stones. |