Editing Lanyon Quoit (section)

==Description==
Lanyon Quoit currently has three support stones which stand to a height of 1.5 metres.<ref name="oxford">Timothy Darvill, Paul Stamper, Jane Timby, (2002), ''England: An Oxford Archaeological Guide to Sites from Earliest Times to AD 1600'', page 441. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0192841017}}</ref> These bear a capstone which is 5.5 metres long,<ref name="pastscape1">[http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=424288 LANYON QUOIT], Pastscape, retrieved 8 November 2013</ref> and which weighs more than 12 tonnes.<ref name="quinn">Tom Quinn, (2007), ''The archaeology of Britain: from prehistory to the industrial age'', page 15. New Holland. {{ISBN|1845372689}}</ref>

In the eighteenth century, the quoit had four supporting stones and the structure was tall enough for a person on horseback to ride under. On 19 October 1815, Lanyon Quoit fell down in a storm.<ref name="hitchin">{{cite book|last=Hitchins|first=Fortescue|author-link=Fortescue Hitchins|title=Cornwall From The Earliest Records And Traditions, To The Present Time|year=1824|publisher=William Penaluna|location=Helston|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YUYQAAAAYAAJ|editor=Samuel Drew|editor-link=Samuel Drew|accessdate=5 October 2011}}</ref> Nine years later, enough money was raised by local inhabitants to re-erect the structure, under the guidance of Captain Giddy of the [[Royal Navy]]. One of the original stones was considered too badly damaged to put back in place, thus there are only three uprights today and the structure does not stand so high as it once did.<ref name="quinn"/> One of the uprights was turned at right-angles when the quoit was re-erected, but that is the only part of it which had its orientation changed. The cap stone is still aligned much as it was before the monument fell.<ref>John Barnatt, Prehistoric Cornwall, The Ceremonial Monuments, 1982, p121-4</ref>
The quoit lies at the north end of a [[long barrow]] 26 metres long and 12 metres wide.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 121</ref> The barrow, which is covered by grass and bracken, is damaged and its outline is difficult to see.<ref name="pastscape1"/> At the south end of the barrow are some more large stones that may be the remains of one or more [[cist]]s.<ref name="pastscape1"/>