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St Cleer, Cornwall is in Cornwall.
The Hurlers Stone Circle is also in South-West England Stone Circles.
The Hurlers Stone Circle [Map] is three stone circles in Cornwall on a line from SSW to NNE with diameters of 35, 42 metres and 33 metres. The two outer stone circles are circular. The middle circle, the largest is slightly elliptical. The earliest mention of the Hurlers was by historian John Norden, who visited them around 1597; see Speculi Britanniae: Cornwall [Map].
John Norden "Speculi Britanniae: Cornwall". 1597. The Hurlers [Map], c. 16. certayne stones raysed and sett in the grounde of some 6 foote high and 2 foote square, some bigger, some lesser, and are fixed in suche straglinge manner as those Countrye men doe in performinge that pastime Hurlinge. The manner of the standinge of theis stones is as followeth: This monumente seemeth to importe an intention of the memoriall of some matter done in this kinde of exercise, thowgh time haue worne out the maner.
The Antiquities of Cornwall by William Borlase Chapter VII. Of this kind is the Monument call'd the Hurlers [Map], in the Parish St. Clere, Cornwall, the Stones of which, by the vulgar, are suppos'd to have been once Men, and thus transform'd, as a punishment for their hurling upon the Lord's Day.1 This Monument consisted of three Circles from which many Stones are now carry'd off; what remain, and their distances may be seen (Plate XV. fig. vi.).
Note 1. Hurling, is playing with a Ball, and endeavouring to get at the Goal with it before one's Antagonist; an antient tryal of Strength and Swiftness among the Cornish.
Trethevy Quoit [Map] is a Neolithic structure of five standing stones capped by a large slab. It was originally covered by a mound.
John Norden "Speculi Britanniae: Cornwall". 1597. Tretheuie [Map], c. 14. called in Latine Casa gigantis, a litle howse rayled of mightie stones, standing on a litle hill within a feilde, the forme herevnder expressed.
This monument standeth in the parish of St Clere. The couer being all one stone, is from A to B 16 foote the length, the bredth from C to D is 10 foot, the thicknes from G to H is 2 foote; E is an arteficiall holl 8 inches diameter, made thorowgh the roofe very rounde, which served as it seemeth to putt out a staffe, wherof the howse it selfe was not capable: F was the dore or Entrance.
Nænia Cornubiæ by William Borlase Trethevy Cromlech. Trethevy Cromlech [Map].
The largest, though perhaps the least known of the Cornish Cromlechs, is that of Trethevy, Trevethy, or, as the common people call it, Tredavy, in the parish of St. Clere. The earliest account of it is given by Norden [Map], who, writing about the year 1610, says, "Tretheuie, called in Latine Casagigantis, a litle howse raysed of mightie stones, standing on a litle hill within a feilde, the forme hereunder expressed;" and accordingly there follows an original, but highly characteristic engraving of the monument. Two more recent notices of it appear respectively in the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, and the Report of the Penzance Natural History Society for the year 1850; in the former, the author being S. R. Pattison, Esq., F.G.S., and in the latter, E. H. Pedler, Esq. Of the two drawings here inserted, the first is from a photograph by Mr. Lobb, of Wadebridge, and the second from the accomplished pencil of J. T. Blight, Esq., F.S.A. From these two the reader may easily gather the chief peculiarities of the structure.
Trethevy Quoit [Map] seen in the 1890s at a summer excursion, possibly of the Miner's Association of Cornwall and Devon.'