Pipers of Boleigh
The Pipers of Boleigh (also called "Pipers of St Buryan") are a pair of menhirs near the Merry Maidens stone circle and Fogou of Boleigh , about 3 miles south of the village of St Buryan , in Cornwall , England .
description
The two pipers are oriented northeast-southwest. The stones are about 90.0 m apart in two fields. The southwest stone is 4.7 meters high and has two elongated cracks. The northeast stone, inclined slightly to the northwest, is 4.2 meters high and has a rectangular cross-section.
Legends
The name of the stones is the legend of two Pfeifer ( English pipers ) back, which turned to stone because they played the music for the dancing Merry Maidens.
Another legend has it that the two stones were erected after a battle of the 10th century, in the Anglo-Saxon army under the leadership of Athelstan or Æthelred (Ealdorman) against the King Howel ap Ris guided and supported by the Danes Cornish Celts fought . The pipers are supposed to mark the positions of the opposing leaders.
See also
literature
- Homer Sykes: Mysterious Britain - Fact and Folklore George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. 1993 p. 33
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '4 " N , 5 ° 35' 7.7" W.