Cornwall is full of ancient monuments. These range from ancient passage graves, through quoits (dolmens), standing stones and stone circles, to Iron Age round houses and hill forts.

They all make wonderful places to walk to. And when you have left, you can talk about what you have just seen, what on earth it was actually for and why anyone would go to all that trouble to construct it. Endless amusement.

We will post pictures here as we rifle through our archives and visit new sites. For now, here is a list of some of them:

Stone circles

• Merry Maidens
• Boscawen-un
• Boskednan, (Nine Maidens)
• Craddock Moor
• Duloe
• Fernacre
• Goodaver
• Leaze
• Leskernick
• Louden Hill
• Nine stones
• Stannon
• Stripple stones
• The Hurlers
• Treen Commmon/Gear Hill
• Tregeseal
• Trippet stones
• Wendron (Nine Maidens)

Quoits

• Bosporthennis quoit
• Carwynnen ( or Giant’s) quoit
• Chun quoit
• Mulfra quoit
• Pawton quoit
• Trethevy quoit
• West Lanyon quoit
• Zennor quoit

Other sites

• Ballowall barrow
• Beersheba menhir
• Castle an Dinas fort
• Kenidjack holed stones
• Men-an-tol
• St Breock Down megalith
• Tolvan stone
• Tregiffian barrow