The Merry Maidens (grid reference SW432245), also known as Dawn's Men (a likely corruption of the Cornish Dons Men "Stone Dance") is a late neolithic...

The Pipers are a pair of standing stones near The Merry Maidens stone circle located 2 miles (3 km) to the south of the village of St Buryan, in Cornwall...

Watson (Tirvab) Jori Ansell, Caradok. Barded in 1978 at Merry Maidens, St Buryan by examination in the Cornish language. Joined GK Council as elected member...

fish to feed the village until the storm was over. All the fish was put into a big pie, and the pie called "Stargazy pie". The Merry Maidens stone circle...

monoliths, including The Merry Maidens stone circle, The Nine Maidens of Boskednan, the Tregeseal Dancing Stones, and The Hurlers. The supposedly petrified...

Cornwall, England The Pipers, St Buryan, standing stones associated with the Merry Maidens stone circle, St. Buryan, Cornwall, England All pages with titles...

more accessible stone circle, The Merry Maidens, lies 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south of the village in a field along the B3315 toward Land's End. This...

Cornwall, in the Penwith district north of St Buryan, by the A30 road from Penzance to Land's End. Both the Merry Maidens stone circle and the two Pipers...

Eve venue. Penwith also has the highest concentration of Neolithic sites in Europe, including monuments at The Merry Maidens, Lanyon Quoit, Chûn Quoit and...

on the island of Ireland; 316 in England; 81 in Wales; 49 in Brittany (France); and 6 in the Channel Isles. Aubrey Burl records six sites in the Channel...

9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, Pastscape, retrieved 9 November 2013 Boskednan (Nine Maidens) at Megalithics Boskednan or 'Nine Maidens' at www.historic-cornwall...

showed the exact location of the stones. Cornwall portal Other prehistoric stone circles in the Penwith district Boscawen-Un The Merry Maidens – also...

It lies close to The Merry Maidens stone circle. The site is managed by the Cornwall Heritage Trust on behalf of English Heritage. The large stone grave...

They share the name with another pair of standing stones near the Merry Maidens to the south of the village of St Buryan, also in Cornwall. The Pipers are...

near the town of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. It is also often referred to among international tourists as the "Armenian Stonehenge". The Carahunge...

settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland...

The Dolmen of Menga (Spanish: Dolmen de Menga) is a megalithic burial mound called a tumulus, a long barrow form of dolmen, dating from 3750–3650 BCE...

orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found individually...

The Hurlers Long Meg and Her Daughters The Longstones Mên-an-Tol The Merry Maidens Merrivale Mitchell's Fold Nine Ladies Rollright Stones Rudston (Rudston...

examples to be found in Cornwall such as The Merry Maidens, The Hurlers and Boscawen-Un. In contrast to the over 70 stone circles known from Dartmoor...

The Knap of Howar (/ˌnæp ˌɒv ˈhaʊər/) on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland is a Neolithic farmstead which may be the oldest preserved stone...

The Pipers, The Merry Maidens, and several other monuments may have been built with respect to the previously built Late Neolithic cromlech and the later...

wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance. In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone "skeleton"...

subtitled The Lass That Loved a Sailor, uses the synonym "tar" frequently in its dialogue, including the songs "The Merry Maiden and the Tar" and "A...

local oolitic limestone, the three monuments, now known as the King's Men and the Whispering Knights in Oxfordshire and the King Stone in Warwickshire...

one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice. The stones are set...

Bloom. Arthur Sullivan was accused of using the song’s first two bars for ‘When a merry maiden marries’ in The Gondoliers; he denied it. 1892 Thomas Bott...

Nine Stones Close, also known as the Grey Ladies, is a stone circle on Harthill Moor in Derbyshire in the English East Midlands. It is part of a tradition...

dating between the end of the 4th millennium and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. have been found (but little studied) throughout the Caucasus Mountains...

complex from the Neolithic era (c. 3600–2500 BC), on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic...