The Pipers
The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Hurlers stone circles, located on Bodmin Moor near the village of Minions, Cornwall, UK. They share the name with another pair of standing stones near the Merry Maidens to the south of the village of St Buryan, also in Cornwall.
Description
The Pipers are approximately 2 metres high and the width between them is about the same distance. They are situated about 120 metres west-south-west of the central Hurlers circle. According to folklore they represent musicians playing for three circles of dancers who were turned to stone for engaging in festivities on a holy day.
The area around the Pipers is notable in archaeology for the discovery of a bronze dagger and gold beaker along with some beads and flint at Rillaton Barrow in 1818, approximately 550 m north of the Pipers.
Further reading
- Burl, Aubrey, The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany (Yale University Press) 2000.
References
- ^ Aubrey Burl (1981). Rites of the gods p.110. Dent. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ Timothy Darvill; Paul Stamper; Jane Timby (2002). England: an Oxford archaeological guide to sites from earliest times to AD 1600 p. 440. Oxford University Press. pp. 440–. ISBN 978-0-19-284101-8. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
External links
Media related to The Pipers (Minions) at Wikimedia Commons
- Illustrated entry in the Megalithic Portal
- Illustrated entry in the Modern Antiquarian
- Map sources for The Pipers
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