ANCIENT-SITE DISCOVERY
The Hurlers
Three circles beneath an enormous sky.
ANCIENT-SITE
The Hurlers
The Hurlers are three Bronze Age stone circles on Bodmin Moor, set within a wide, exposed landscape where the stones, sky and surrounding tors seem inseparable from one another.
“The landscape seems to become part of the monument.”
The Hurlers stand on open moorland near Minions, three stone circles arranged roughly in a line beneath the wide Bodmin Moor sky.
Their setting is as important as the stones themselves. The surrounding tors, the changing weather and the long views across the moor give the site a sense of scale that is difficult to capture in photographs.
Archaeology places the circles in the Bronze Age, but later folklore gave them their name: dancers supposedly turned to stone for breaking the Sabbath. Whatever explanation you prefer, the place still has a powerful sense of separation from ordinary time.
