Giant miner puppet walks through Cornwall
A giant puppet of a Cornish miner has taken its first steps on a 130-mile journey.
The 10-metre (32.8ft) Man Engine will travel across the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site to mark the 10th year of its Unesco heritage status.
The puppet is the same height as a double decker bus when in "crawling" mode but more than twice that height when standing.
It was launched in Tavistock, Devon and reaches Geevor, Cornwall on 6 August.
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The machine is the brainchild of Will Coleman, founder of Golden Tree Productions, and is named after a mechanism used to move miners up and down to working levels.
Man Engine in numbers
Britain's largest mechanical puppet
10m
Height when standing (32.8ft)
4.5m
Height when crawling (14.8ft)
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40 tonnes Weight with accompanying vehicle
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130 miles Distance travelled in two weeks, Tavistock to Geevor
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10 Cornish Mining World Heritage Site areas visited
