Long Meg and Her Daughters - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Long Meg and Her Daughters - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age (circa 3200 - 2500BC).Burl 2000. p. 13. The stone circle is the second widest in England, behind Avebury in Wiltshire. It consists of 59 stones (of which 27 remain upright) set in an east/west oval configuration measuring on its long axis. There may originally have been as many as 70 stones. Long Meg herself is a high monolith of red sandstone to the southwest of the circle. The stone is marked with examples of megalithic art including a cup and ring mark, a spiral, and rings of concentric circles.Barrowclough, 2010, p.125-134Clare, 2007, p.44-48Beckensall, 2002, p.59-70 This art mirrors examples from Neolithic Ireland, including the contemporary Newgrange. Read more on Wikipedia
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