The Pipers
Standing Stones
SW 435 248 and SW 435 247


Just over 400m to the NE are The Pipers, a pair of standing stones, These stones are not visible from the circle. The NE stone is the highest surviving stone in Cornwall at just over 5 metres (16.5 ft) but it is leaning. This is one of the pipers that played so that the merry maidens could dance. 

The northeast stone

The SW stone is 4.1 metres (13.5 ft) high and the second tallest Cornish standing stone. Both these are on private land but the campsite owners let us visit them.

The southwest stone

 


  Other nearby stones

  Gun Rith
  Standing Stone
  SW 429 244

This stone stands in a field boundary hedge on a footpath 350m west of the Merry Maidens reached from near the Tregriffian Burial Chamber further along the road. It is about 600mm (2 ft) square and 3 metres (10 ft) high.

  
  The Holed Stone

 

Just over the road from the circle by the first laybys is a holed stone in the gateway to a field



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