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    The Merry Maidens (grid reference SW432245), also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dons Men "Stone Dance") is a late neolithic...
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  • Cornwall, England The Pipers, St Buryan, standing stones associated with the Merry Maidens stone circle, St. Buryan, Cornwall, England All pages with titles...
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    The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles (3 km) to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall...
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    Watson (Tirvab) Jori Ansell, Caradok. Barded in 1978 at Merry Maidens, St Buryan by examination in the Cornish language. Joined GK Council as elected member...
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    monoliths, including The Merry Maidens stone circle, The Nine Maidens of Boskednan, the Tregeseal Dancing Stones, and The Hurlers. The supposedly petrified...
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    more accessible stone circle, The Merry Maidens, lies 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south of the village in a field along the B3315 toward Land's End. This...
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    in Wiltshire, and The Merry Maidens in Cornwall. Stone circles are usually grouped in terms of the shape and size of the stones, the span of their radius...
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    Cornwall, in the Penwith district north of St Buryan, by the A30 road from Penzance to Land's End. Both the Merry Maidens stone circle and the two Pipers...
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    fish to feed the village until the storm was over. All the fish was put into a big pie, and the pie called "Stargazy pie". The Merry Maidens stone circle...
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    Eve venue. Penwith also has the highest concentration of Neolithic sites in Europe, including monuments at The Merry Maidens, Lanyon Quoit, Chûn Quoit and...
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