Duloe stone circle, B3254, Duloe

Image: © Jo and Steve Turner Taken: 27 Jun 2019

Scheduled Monument. The circle was originally bisected by a hedge which was removed in 1858 and in 1863 three stones were re-erected and a Bronze Age ribbon-handled urn, containing cremated human bones, was found at the base of the NNE stone during a vain attempt to raise the broken stone. There is some discrepancy over accounts of this discovery - whether the urn was found beneath the fallen stone or recovered from the hedge that bisected the site. WC Borlase inferred from the discovery that there may have been a raised mound or stony cairn within the circle and it does seem reasonable to interpret the monument as the impressive kerb or peristalith of an imposing Bronze Age burial monument. The stones do roughly align to the points of the compass suggesting a possible ceremonial observance of astronomical events. Later smaller stones have been added although it is unclear when these date to.

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