The Pipers
The Pipers | |
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Location | Bodmin Moor, Cornwall |
Coordinates | 50°30′56″N 4°27′36″W / 50.5155°N 4.4599°W |
The Pipers are a pair of
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
- ^ Aubrey Burl (1981). Rites of the gods p.110. Dent. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-19-284101-8. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
External links
Media related to The Pipers (Minions) at Wikimedia Commons