![]() ![]() There is some discrepancy over accounts of this discovery – whether the urn was found beneath the fallen stone or recovered from the hedge that bisected the site. ![]() During this early attempt at restoration, a Bronze Age ribbon handled urn was discovered which contained cremated human bone. It is also thought that there was some attempt to re-erect the fallen stone but unfortunately part of it broke off and the fragment has now vanished from the site. Restoration carried out in the mid 1800s included the removal of a hedge that ran through the middle of the circle and incorporated two of the original stones. There is a lead lode which outcrops two miles to the north of Duloe which may be the source of the stones. The ‘circle’ appears to have been set out by eye in an ovoid design, elongated in a north-south direction. Seven of the stones are upright with one fallen. The circle is in many respects unique, consisting of eight large and irregular white quartz blocks set in a pattern of alternating large and small stones. ![]() The flat ridge top on which it lies is flanked half a mile to either side by deep valleys containing the Looe and West Looe rivers. Nestled unobtrusively in the corner of a field beside a Cornish hedge stands Duloe stone circle, the smallest stone circle in Cornwall. ![]()
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