More information : (SW 93636754 - SW 93686763) Nine Maidens (NAT) Stone Row (NR). (1)
Nine Maidens "is the only known stone row in Cornwall. Of the presumably 9 original stones, 5 are still more or less complete and standing; one is recumbent; stumps of 2 others are still visible; but the southern stone has been largely broken up although its stump may still be in place. There does not appear .... to be any associated round barrow."
HHR Grade 1.
Bronze Age?. (2,3)
The stone row is generally well preserved, 7 stones ranging from 0.8 metres (a stump) to 2.1 metres high are standing, one is leaning and the ninth (at the northern, not the southern end) is recumbent and broken. There are a number of field clearance boulders lying in the row and a small pile of stones at the southern end, which Grinsell may have accepted as the ninth stone. The standing stone at SW 93926820 (SW 96 NW 31) may also have been connected with the row.
Published survey (25") revised. (4)
The stone row is as described in report of 27 1 72, undisturbed, but encumbered by field clearance boulders.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on PFD.
A manuscript plan of the Nine Maidens, made in 1855 by Nicholas Whitley was found in Truro Museum documents in May 1977. It is interesting in that it confirms the contention in report of 27 1 72
that the prostrate stone at the N end is part of the row and shows that it was already broken and in its present position in 1855. (5)
SW 93666759. Stone alignment known as the Nine Maidens. Listed Grade I and scheduled. (6, 7) |