zennor hill looking towards zennor quoit. ‘the tors were not only their source of inspiration, but they were constructed in the form of tors. in elevating large stones, these people were emulating the work of a super-ancestral past. the dolmens, in effect, were the tors dismantled and put back together again to resemble their original form. once constructed, they could themselves be tors’…(TILLEY)solutions or rock basins on the upper surface of tor stones form over many millennia by the continual agitation of rain water combined with the acidic action of sediments within the rock to create deep circular depressions that can penetrate right through the rock (see previous post). these are found all over the granite tors of west penwith in close proximity to the megalithic monuments. borlase was the first to recognise the significance they had in the eyes of our ancestors as ‘sacred’ basins of water, perhaps seen by them in turn, as the ceremonial ‘art’work of their ancestors. this view shows zennor quoit (centre) set against trink hill on that appears just above the horizon from the vantage point of the rock basin. #solutionsbasin, #rockbasin, #ancienthistory, #ancientrituals, #sacredwater, #sacredwaters, #quoits, #zennor, #zennorhill, #zennorquoit, #megalthic, #ancientmonument, #ancientwisdom, #tors, #granitetors, #westpenwith, #megaliths, #montagecity.com,