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Portal-Dolmen

The Dolmen shows the entrance to a neolithic burial chamber,3500 BC.

This one is called Lanyan Quoit in Cornwall UK .It has three support stones and a capstone weighing 12 tons.

In the eighteenth century the Quoit had four support stones and the structure was tall enough for a person on a horse to ride under.

 

On 19th October 1815 it fell down in a storm and one stone was badlly damaged. It was re-erected 9 years later with three upright stones..

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