Duloe
Stone Circle
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Park in Duloe village carpark and walk south along the road for a couple of hundred metres passing a pub on the left. When you reach Stonetown Farm continue for about 100m until you reach a small lane on the left. Go up this to a gate that gives access to the site in a field.
An information board says that the circle was not discovered until 1801 and was restored in 1861. It had originally been bisected by a hedge and was half in a field and half in an orchard. In the process of restoration the tallest stone was broken and a workman broke an urn that was found.
The circle is about 12m diameter, the smallest in Cornwall, with 8 stones. The tallest is 2.6m to the south and the others are under 1.8m. Although being the smallest circle, it has the largest stones in Cornwall. The stones are white and are of a quartz rich rock containing the mineral ankerite that is found 2 miles NW of Duloe. The smallest stone is to the SE and is just over 1 metre high and appears to be almost pure quartz.
Duloe
Circle
Easter
2002
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