The Hurlers Stone Circles

The Hurlers (Cornish: An Hurlysi) is a group of three stone circles in the civil parish of St Cleer, Cornwall, England [1]. The site is half-a-mile (0.8 km) west of the village of Minions on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor, and approximately four miles (6 km) north of Liskeard [1]. Just to the west of the circles are two standing stones known as the Pipers [1]. The Hurlers comprises three stone circles that lie on a line from SSW to NNE, and have diameters of 35 metres, 42 metres and 33 metres [1]. The middle circle, the largest is slightly elliptical [1]. In the middle circle 14 stones survive out of 28 [1]. The stones show clear traces of being hammered smooth [1]. Ralegh Radford excavated the site in the 1930s, and partly restored the two northern circles by re-erecting some stones and placing marker stones in the positions of those missing [1].