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| Nine Stones, Belston |
"Belstone Tor is easily climbed, and beyond it, not far from an artillery flag staff, is the stone circle known as the Nine Stones - in reality their are seventeen. Legend asserts that they - just as the Merry Maidens near Penzance - were individuals turned into stones for dancing on Sunday but they have not yet finished their dance, for they may be seen to move every day at noon. This may be accounted for by the effect of those
Tremulous vapours of dim noontide
which on hot summer days rise over the moor."
Cresswell 1921
Map - Nine Maidens / Stones, Dartmoor
Map - Merry Maidens, Cornwall
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