HURLERS, a number of large stones, set in a kind
of square figure near St Clare in Cornwall, so called
from an odd opinion held by the common people, that
they are so many men petrified, or changed into stones,
for profaning the sabbath-day by hurling the ball, an
exercise for which the people of that country have been
always famous.
The hurlers are oblong, rude, and unhewed. Many
authors suppose them to have been trophies erected in
memory of some battle: others take them for bounda-
ries to distinguish lands. Lastly, others, with more
probability, hold them to have been sepulchral monu-
ments.