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Cornwalls Ancient Monuments - Merry Maidens - OK0152
Owner: Ky Devas
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Altitude: 102 m. ASL.
 Region: United Kingdom (UK) > Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cache type: Virtual
Size: No container
Status: Ready for Search
Date hidden: 12-04-2010
Date created: 12-04-2010
Date published: 12-04-2010
Last modification: 02-07-2010
8x Found
0x Not found
0 notes
watchers 1 watchers
11 visitors
4 x rated
Rated as: Excellent
1 x recommended
This cache is recommended by: dixie_gooner
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Description EN

As this is the site of an ancient monument there is no physical cache here. Instead you need to e-mail me a photo of your GPS with the Merry Maidens, or upload a photo with your log, in order to log your find.

 

The Merry Maidens stone circle lies adjacent to the B3315 Newlyn to Treen road. Parking and access is in a lay-by at

N50 03.894  W005 35.411.

 

The Merry Maidens is said to date from the Bronze age and is one of the few 'true' stone circles in Cornwall, being perfectly circular; it comprises nineteen stones today but is thought to originally have consisted of just eighteen. The stones are approximately 3-4 ft high and the circle is about 70 ft in diameter.

  A popular Cornish name for the stone circle is ‘Dans Maen’ which means ‘dancing stones’. Folklore tells of maidens on their way to church being distracted by pipers music and wandering into a field where they began dancing. A thunderbolt struck them and they were turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath. The two musicians were also turned to stone. The Pipers are said to be the largest standing stones in Penwith, the tallest being 16 feet. They are within a couple of hundred feet of each other in nearby fields.

www.historic-cornwall.org.uk


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