The north-easternmost of the two menhirs known as The Pipers, situate close to the Merry Maidens stone circle at Boleigh in Cornwall. Photo taken from the south on 1st February 2003.

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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.

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#StandingStoneSunday again, so back to Cornwall, and near The Hurlers circles are The Pipers.

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