They share the name with another pair of standing stones near the Merry Maidens to the south of the village of St Buryan, also in Cornwall.

[1] The Pipers are approximately 2 metres high and the width between them is about the same distance.

According to folklore they represent musicians playing for three circles of dancers who were turned to stone for engaging in festivities on a holy day.

The area around the Pipers is notable in archaeology for the discovery of a bronze dagger and gold beaker along with some beads and flint at Rillaton Barrow in 1818, approximately 550 m north of the Pipers.

[2] Media related to The Pipers (Minions) at Wikimedia Commons