Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Circles & monuments
Ancient monument

Lanyon Quoit

Near Morvah, Cornwall

A giant's table of stone, once tall enough to ride a horse under.

Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen whose capstone weighs more than 12 tonnes. In the 1700s it was said a man on horseback could ride beneath it.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open Lanyon Quoit on the mapReport a sighting here
When
c. 3500 BC
Where
50.1470, -5.5960
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

National Trust, free. Right beside the road.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries