There are also some hints that some of the ground on one side of the stones was disturbed during this early restoration project: here soil mixed up with the rab and many smaller stones were unearthed. Splinters of glazed Victorian patterned china, clay pipe stems and bowls and even bits of 20th century century bakelite were found. Perhaps the fragments of china as well as bits of drinking glasses are signs of celebratory picnics or later outdoor gatherings to mark the early restoration of the quoit by members of the Pendarves family? Some of the glass looks even older and perhaps the family at the big house regularly held summer picnics around this ancient monument. For once the quoit had been restored in 1834, it would clearly have become a curious local landmark and focus.
All the pottery fragments are of gabbroic clays. Gabbroic clays were widely used throughout prehistoric and Roman Cornwall for making pots and this raw material is very distinctive and sourced only to The Lizard. These tantalising discoveries suggest that within this field there are other traces of events which date to the Bronze and Iron Ages, many several thousand years after the construction of Carwynnen Quoit.
