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#TheHurlers #StoneCircle #BodminMoor #Cornwall A triple circle from the late #Neolithic or early #BronzeAge Legend says that the stones are petrified #Hurling players struck down for having a bit of fun on a Sunday because #god can't abide that type of thing.
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It was an ancient form of golf called "hurling." Contestants were called "hurlers," hence the name. The competition required contestants to hurl "hurling balls," or menhirs, as far as possible toward a location called the "green," and then into the "hole," typically a roofed stone structure.
Here we see the first tee, a 250 yard straight line to the green in the distance, where earlier hurlers have set their menhirs, preparing to putt. Putting involved rolling the stones on their edges into the hole. To the right is the building which doubled as both the 1st hole, and the mandatory 19th hole, found at every green, which some say is a Scottish invention, though nearly everyone seems certain that 19th hole hurling was invented in the United States.
We're just modernized wimps. I scoff at your tiny balls! This was once a manly sport!
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The Pipers, a pair of menhirs close to The Hurlers stone circles, just visible on the horizon, near Minions on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, photographed from the west-south-west on 8 August 1993.
#ThePipers #TheHurlers #Menhirs #Minions #Liskeard #BodminMoor #Cornwall #StandingStoneSunday
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Monochrome real photographic postcard of The Hurlers stone circles, by Minions near Liskeard in Cornwall. Published by Overland Views of Uxbridge, № 971. Postally unused but is c.1950. #TheHurlers #Liskeard #Cornwall #BodminMoor #StoneCircles #Postcards #StandingStoneSunday