The Pipers, St Buryan

The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall, United Kingdom [1]. The Pipers are on a northeast to southwest alignment which points almost directly at The Merry Maidens [1]. The two stones stand in separate fields about 90 metres apart [1]. The southwest stone is the taller of the two, measuring 4.7 metres high—there are two longitudinal cracks down the northwest side, and one down the southeast side [1]. The northeast stone is 4.2 metres high and is of rectangular section—the stone leans to the northwest [1]. The stones were first recorded by William Borlase in 1754 [1]. His descendant William Copeland Borlase excavated the stones in 1871 with no result [1].