The Merry Maidens

The Merry Maidens, also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dons Men "Stone Dance") is a Late Neolithic stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall [1]. The stones are around 1.2 metres high, with the tallest standing 1.4 metres [1]. They are spaced three to four metres apart with a larger gap between the stones on the east side [1]. The circle is around 24 metres in diameter [1]. In earlier times there was another stone circle located 200 metres away, but this had been destroyed by the end of the 19th century [1]. The Merry Maidens were first examined in detail by antiquarian William Borlase in 1769 [1].