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Photo Pages: Merry Maidens (Circle) - Stone Circle in England in Cornwall
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Submitted by Anonymous on Wednesday, 03 November 2004 Page Views: 8652
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 Site Name: Merry Maidens (Circle) Alternate Name: Rosemodress Circle, Boleigh Circle, Danse Maen
Country: England County: Cornwall Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Penzance Nearest Village: Lamorna
Map Ref: SW433245 Landranger Map Number: 203
Latitude: 50.065088N Longitude: 5.588334W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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   Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by JimChampion
Stone Circle in Cornwall. Restored in the 1860s, this 23.8m (78-foot) perfect circle is Cornwall's pride and joy. Each of the nineteen stones is about 1.2m (4 feet) high, and evenly spaced at about 3.7m (12-foot) intervals.
There is a larger gap 6.2 (20 feet) located at the east, which may indicate an astronomically-related entrance to the circle. There is a well-known tradition that the stones represent maidens who were turned into stone for dancing on the Sabbath.
Access: In field just off the B3315 from Penzance.
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by thrip
Merry Maidens. August 2007
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by thrip
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by h_fenton
Merry Maidens stone circle from the west, oblique kite aerial photograph.
photo taken: 15 October 2008
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by rldixon
Merry Maidens june 2008
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by croppy
Merry Maidens (Circle) with arial cam
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by john7
Celtic cross on the roadside near to the Merry Maidens
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by john7
Merry Maidens- September 07
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by AngieLake
The Merry Maidens circle, viewed from Gun Rith. The alignment was to the East.
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by BazCross
Gun Rith in the adjacent field from the corner of the Merry Maidens.
 Merry Maidens (Circle) submitted by hamish
Came on my annual visit,beautiful day this time.Took the picture along what may have been a stone row ?
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Re: Merry Maidens (Score: 1)
by Bran on Thursday, 24 October 2002
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is probably the most famous of all the stone circles in cornwall.
A perfect stone circle ,close to many other sites (parking close by at the roadside).whenever I pass by or visit there are always people here.
REMEMBER this site is a favorite place of meeting for local pagans and though they dont mind others being there, they do like to be left alone durring there ceromonies after all this is their equivelent of their local parish church. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens (Score: 1)
by sem on Sunday, 06 June 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Condition:
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Sorry everyone,but this is a C19th fake.Look at the field's edge.Every big stone is a classic pillar or lozenge shape (male & female).Why would farmers have cleared these from the field and left a few small stones in a circle?
Also some of the circle stones show very little of 3000yrs of weathering.
We should seek the truth not what we desire. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 22 October 2004 | Look closely stranger, most of the stones in the hedge were erected in the last 10 years. The stones would never have had any type of field hedgeing around when they were erected, but as the field has been in use for stock for a few hundred years it has had to be walled.
So the truth is the circle is old, the stone hedges are a recent restoration of older hedges that were no longer good enough!
Shame I didnt take photos for disbelievers as yourself, whilst they were being erected!
Bran | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens (Score: 1)
by sem on Thursday, 28 October 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | I think we are coming from different angles Bran.The site is obviously ancient but the field boundary is recent as is the existing circle.
Where did you find the stones you moved there?I REALLY hope you kept a record of these movements as archaeologists need to be convinced of reality before they accept it.
I would like to think we are fighting on the same side but please look at the weathering on the stones in the circle,there is one that looks as though it came out of the ground yesterday.
Yours (hopefully an ally) Sem | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens (Score: 1)
by Bran on Tuesday, 02 November 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | The field hedging was erected under the supervision of the local county archaeologists and partly paid for in county grants and the stones came from a field about half a mile away that had been a dumping ground for stones dragged off the fields surrounding for the past few centaurys. The new hedges are erected in a traditional fashion where the large stones are placed in the alternate lozenge shapes. Part of the reason for erecting the new hedges is security as there have been attempts to steal the stones in the past decade or so. One of the ones at the top end of the field actualy being uprooted and partialy dragged down towards the old gate. If some of them dont look as weathered as you might feel they ought to be that is the nature of the granite that is used --- also there are a lot of people who lean against the stones or touch them throughout the year (not supriseingly as this is one of the most visited circles in the country)
Hope this answers your queries Sem , and yes we probably are allys -- I will say hello to the danse maen* for you when I go up there in the next couple of days to do my usual litter check
*dancing stones in cornish, (merry maidens is a very recent name only appearing when the first tourists arrived along with the legend of the maidens turned to stone) | [ Reply to This ]
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Merry Maidens - another interesting stone (Score: 1)
by ShropshireTraveller on Tuesday, 21 November 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | Look to the south of the circle - there are two stones out from it; a careful look will yield another two stones, one more flush with the ground than the other.
There is another interesting stone to the east, about midway towards what was the Tregurnow Circle. Set between two gateways, on a bend it makes you say "hmmmmn" and IMO is convincing. At SW 43559 24497. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens - another interesting stone (Score: 1)
by Bran on Thursday, 04 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Shropshire Traveller mentions the large stone on the bend between gateways; this has always been regarded by local farmers as an "outlier" to the circle and as a boundary between the accepted manors/large farm holdings. Walked past there recently and noticed offerings at its base and what looked suspiciously like recently scattered cremation ashes, strange place for them but obviously someones favorite place! | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Merry Maidens - Was this circle once the centre of three? (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Friday, 21 December 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | I believe that the Merry Maidens circle was once the central one of three that ran NE-SW down the sloping ground. I've so often subconsciously thought of the Merry Maidens in a plural sense and talked about 'them', rather than 'it', that I decided to dowse there last May.
I found the NE 'circle' at 68 degs and 34 paces from the existing one. Its northern arc cut into the hedge to the left of a prominent large block of stone, and its diameter was 39 paces.
The SW 'circle' was 240 degs and 28 paces from the existing circle and 32/33 paces across. (I didn't pace across the present circle, but it is recorded as being 23.8 metres in diameter.)
My own paces were long strides, but being a woman, not quite 3ft, I'd guess.
From the furthest edge of each 'circle' [ie:SW and NE] the stones of the present circle appear in sharp relief along the ridge of the slope.
Having read the comments on The Hurlers' possible alignment, I wonder if the same alignment with Orion would occur at Winter Solstice? Does anyone know??
Maybe someone knows if those adjoining circles' areas have been excavated? There are so many large stones around the hedges of the present field indicating site clearance, that it is quite possible that several monuments once existed here.
(While I'm on the subject: I also dowsed a double avenue of stones leaving the circle's northern arc towards 350 degs, then about 2/3, to 3/4 of the way to the hedge, altering course to 26 degs towards large stones in the hedge not far from the kissing gate. I wondered if this route would have carried on towards the Pipers, though they are some distance away. [It wouldn't have been wise to try to track this angle across the road, on a dangerous corner!]
Before doing any of this dowsing I sat for a while on the large stone in the southern hedge to contemplate the circle. When standing up on it I noticed, behind some trees, that Carn Kenidjack [I'm sure it was this outcrop] was a significant marker to the North.
Later dowsing seemed to indicate an avenue of stones between this large stone I stood on, and the southern arc of the circle, though the reaction was not as strong... so I've marked it 'possible avenue'. I believe 'Hamish' [Mike Murray], had some success here?)
NB: Disconcertingly, Gerald Priestland writes in 'West of Hayle River' [1980]:
"Very soon you will pass through a positive open-air museum of antiquities; on the right, two more crosses, a topless tomb and the celebrated Merry Maidens stone circle; on the left, various stones marking the battlefield of Boleit where Athelstan finally crushed the mainland Cornish."
This sentence casts doubt on the age of the Pipers, etc, perhaps?
Has anyone else any knowledge of that story? | [ Reply to This ]
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