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The Trippet stones or Trippet stones circle is a stone circle located on Manor Common in Blisland, north northeast of Bodmin on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK. The Stripple stones are nearby. ==Description== The circle is situated on nearly level ground and has a diameter of . It is made of eight upright granite stones with four others that have fallen. The stones are spaced on average around apart, the highest measuring . The fallen stones are and long. William Lukis suggested there may originally have been as many as twenty-six menhirs that suffered at the hands of stone-breakers. Aubrey Burl suggested twenty eight, set up on opposite facing pairs and suggests the name represents the folklore belief that the stones were girls punished for ''tripping lightly'' on Sabbath. The Stripple stones are visible around eastwards over boggy ground.〔 John Barnatt said that the Trippet stones ''"may replace (or complement) the Stripple stones as part of an overall building programme in the western half of Bodmin Moor"''.
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