The Pipers

Coordinates: 50°30′56″N 4°27′36″W / 50.5155°N 4.4599°W / 50.5155; -4.4599
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The Pipers
The Pipers standing stones on Bodmin Moor with a view of Stowe's Hill
LocationBodmin Moor, Cornwall
Coordinates50°30′56″N 4°27′36″W / 50.5155°N 4.4599°W / 50.5155; -4.4599
The Pipers is located in Cornwall
The Pipers
Location of The Pipers in Cornwall

The Pipers are a pair of

Merry Maidens to the south of the village of St Buryan, also in Cornwall.[1]

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.[2]

Further reading

  • Burl, Aubrey, The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany (Yale University Press) 2000.

References

  1. ^ Aubrey Burl (1981). Rites of the gods p.110. Dent. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  2. . Retrieved 21 March 2011.

External links

Media related to The Pipers (Minions) at Wikimedia Commons