Duloe Stone Circle, Cornwall by Baz Richardson (catching up!) There are numerous stone circles on th
Duloe Stone Circle, Cornwall by Baz Richardson (catching up!) There are numerous stone circles on the moors of Cornwall and Devon, but you certainly don’t expect to find one in a farmer’s field on the outskirts of a Cornish village such as Duloe, a few miles from Looe. Originally there was a hedge running through it and no-one realised that there was actually a stone circle there. Duloe stone circle is the smallest in Cornwall. The flat ridge top on which it lies is flanked half a mile to either side by deep valleys containing the East Looe and West Looe rivers. The circle is in many respects unique, consisting of eight large and irregular white quartz blocks set in a pattern of alternating large and small stones. Seven of the stones are upright with one fallen. The ‘circle’ appears to have been set out by eye in an ovoid design, elongated in a north-south direction. Restoration carried out in the mid-1800s included the removal of the hedge that ran through the middle of the circle and incorporated two of the original stones. During this early attempt at restoration a Bronze Age ribbon-handled urn was discovered which contained cremated human bones. The circle may therefore have been a Bronze Age burial monument. There are no accompanying megalithic monuments in the vicinity. Source: www.historic-cornwall.org.uk/a2m/bronze_age/stone_circle/…. https://flic.kr/p/2mftMy5 -- source link
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