Cornwall’s smallest stone circle, Duloe also boasts the largest stones. Set, rather incongruously, alongside a high hedge on the edge of a green field, about a hundred metres from houses and the church, you get none of the sense of isolation with stunning views that you experience at somewhere like the Merry Maidens. Nor can you check on any alignments.

Close up, one is instantly struck by the size and solidity of the eight stones (one recumbent) which, unlike other circles, are all quartz, the tallest being 2.7m high.

It was restored c1860 and perhaps this explains the rather straight line of three of the stones. A hedge that ran through the middle of the circle was removed at that time.

On the other hand, even Craig Weatherhill admits that it could, just could, be the remains of a burial cairn with the barrow long ago eroded away. Certainly, this would go some way to explaining the straight line.

The circle can be found here.