burial

Fixed to the wall of the church, this rather beautiful slate headstone may belong to some of the ancestors of you Thomases out there!

Like Lanyon Quoit, this was, I understand, once a burial mound with the mortal remains of the cremated skeleton of some chieftain in a bussa or earthenware pot protected by these huge stones. The tombs were long ago ransacked for the chief's golden bracelets or other treasures though such things...

As Treeve has previously pointed out in another pic, this quoit (formerly a burial place under a mound of soil) was tall enough to permit a horse rider to pass under without banging his head. I have read that it was lightning that struck it in the early 19th century that reduced its height when...

As Treeve has previously pointed out in another pic, this quoit (formerly a burial place under a mound of soil) was tall enough to permit a horse rider to pass under without banging his head. I have read that it was lightning that struck it in the early 19th century that reduced its height when...