ABSTRACT
We have talked about the way in which the people on the moor invested the stones with meaning; how they saw and sometimes drew out a patterning from the stones; and how, sometimes, they copied the ancestral creations, and thereby learnt the art of transforming ideas and understandings into material forms that could then be located in new places. Eventually, the copyings and transformations from nature could serve as blueprints for monuments built hundreds of miles from Bodmin Moor, but at Trethevy Quoit, a mere half mile from the moor, we see – or think we see – a small example of one such off-moor creation (Figure 17.1). It is worth pausing and circling round the Quoit to try and understand what was happening.
