Stripple Stones

The Stripple stones is a henge and stone circle located on the south slope of Hawk's Tor, Blisland, 10 kilometres north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, England [1]. First recorded by this name during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I the circle has been described by William Lukis as "the most interesting and remarkable monument in the county" [1]. It is surrounded by a circular ditch and vallum that forms a level platform 175 feet in diameter [1]. The circle is 145.5 feet in diameter with four granite standing stones and several fallen [1]. The Stripple stones were excavated in 1905 by H. St. George Gray who found a burnt flint, three flint flakes, an ox bone and some charcoal and oak timbers in the surrounding ditch [1]. He also detected an entrance from this facing southwest, directly towards the Trippet stones [1]. Gray noted that the stones had only been set approximately 1.5 feet deep into the ground [1]. The vallum surrounding the circle has three semi-lunar projections facing towards the northwest, northeast and east [1].