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The best preserved of all quoits (also called dolmens or cromlechs) in Cornwall, UK is Chûn Quoit, located in open moorland near Madron, Penzance. The uphill walk is well worthwhile because this is perhaps the most visually satisfying of all the quoits. Standing on a windy ridge, above the much later constructed Chûn Castle hillfort, it surveys heather moorland and the open sea.
As with the other quoits, the Chûn was probably covered by an earth mound, of which much evidence abounds. It was a closed chamber and its mushroom-domed capstone measures 3.3 m (11 ft) by 3 m (10 ft), with a maximum thickness of 0.8 m (2 ft 7 in). It is supported about 2 m (7 ft) from the ground by four substantial slabs. There is evidence of an entrance passage to the south-east within the mound area. The site was examined in 1871 but no significant finds were made. In the same vicinity of Chûn Quoit there are many other megalithic and archaeological sites as Lanyon Quoit, Mên-an-Tol and Mên Scryfa. The weird rocky outline of Carn Kenidjack marks the position of midwinter sunset away to the south-west.

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