Merry
Maidens
Stone circle
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Follow the B3315 south from Newlyn on the way to Land’s End. Follow this road for about 3 miles. The circle is to the left of the road with plenty of parking spaces and easy access. We camped right near the stones, in fact next to The Pipers, at Boleigh Farm campsite.
This is a near perfect circle of evenly placed stones, all of which are approximately the same height, about 1.2m and all standing, having been restored in the 1860’s. The circle is 24 metres diameter made up of 19 stones spaced about 3.7 metres apart.
The tops of the stones have all been flattened and 18 of them have flat inner faces suggesting that the view from the inside of the circle was important. During restoration one of the stones was re-erected at right angles to it’s correct position.
The eastern gap
Exactly at the east there is a gap, either an entrance to the circle or the site of a missing stone.
Evening
view
Easter
2002