Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

OK, I get the message!

But going back to the stability issue, if you're concerned that the EH engineer needs to reconsider maybe your best bet is to get a friendly structural engineer to contact him?

The EH engineer didn't think so Geoff reckoning they see much worse apparently!

OK, I get the message!

But going back to the stability issue, if you're concerned that the EH engineer needs to reconsider maybe your best bet is to get a friendly structural engineer to contact him?

Mulfra's also cut [lots] on the underside of the capstone and would slot onto the uprights perfectly because of it, But i'm sure you've seen that Roy. and of course Zennor as well.

Researchers was probably the wrong word to use George, but those that have written up on the quoit in the past, who must have researched it as well presumably before passing comment or putting stuff in print.
Anyone spending time at the quoit should soon suss out that it was very unlikely to have looked like it is now on first build but they seem to have gone down the same path as others before them and just copied each others work and didn't seem to be prepared to make claims which they couldn't substantiate for fear of being made to look foolish.
I on the other hand can say what I like and am prepared to be challenged once my Tome is out. But I can promise you that I believe I have made a good fist of it and won't be ridiculed through lack of careful consideration. If I'm wrong I'm wrong but people will always have a chance to come up with their own ideas which of course will also be open to question.

Well it's on their heads, or more likely someone elses. There's absolutely no way i'd let any of my loved ones near the thing though.

Yep zennor has some beauties but nobody ever considered them as being important.

I'd say the mulfra one is probably the most worked, it's had a huge amount of stone broken off the underside so it fits neatly on it's uprights.

Yes I've got some good pix of that Paul. I wonder where the missing side flanker ended up... any thoughts cos it's pretty barren up there isn't it?

Remember the old drawing of Zennor with one end on one single stone, It may have been like that, the one stone been blasted has such an effect on the whole thing or maybe it just smashed under the weight of the capstone, there is big lumps of a broken stone on site, but that stone wouldn't have being as big as the others if you put the bits together, but if i had to put my money on it, it would have been pretty much the same as Chun, but saying that the single stone idea stands up because on site i can prove the capstone would have being tilted not flat like it at first looks like it would have been and if the single stone was smaller the remains of it are still there on site [but broken up].