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Merry Maidens Stone Circle. Also known as Dawn’s Men (a corruption of the Cornish Dans Maen, meaning Stone Dance).
A late neolithic stone circle (5000 – 2000 BC), comprising 19 granite megaliths approximately 1.2 metres high and about 24 metres in diameter.
Local myth suggests that 19 maidens were turned to stone as punishment for dancing on Sunday
All images are © Chris Gibbins