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Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England.
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Tourist attraction in Hunsonby, England
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England.
Address: Hunsonby, Penrith CA10 1NW, United Kingdom
Hours: Open 24 hours
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One of the finest stone circles in the north of England, Long Meg and Her Daughters stone circle has a diameter of about 350 feet, the second biggest in the ...
The eponymous Long Meg herself is a huge red sandstone pillar standing some 3.6 metres above ground level and estimated to weigh in the region of 9 tones, the ...
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Very beautiful place with small area of parking and enjoying a sandwich with an amazing view of the stones! Don't forget to find Little Meg too though:) When ...
Long Meg And Her Daughters [Long Meg] Stone Circle - Megalithic Portal
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The stones are placed in a flattened oval 100 by 93 metres, and there were originally about seventy. Today there are fifty-nine, twenty-seven of them still ...
Dating from the Bronze Age, Long Meg and her Daughters is the name given to a mysterious circle of 69 stones near Little Salkeld on the River Eden.
May 21, 2023 · In our mythic tradition, Long Meg and her daughters weren't originally rocks at all but sorceresses whose spell backfired and turned them to ...
The monument is the stone circle known as Long Meg and Her Daughters, together with an associated cursus or linear earthwork to the west of the stone circle, ...
Long Meg is made of local red sandstone, whereas the daughters are boulders of rhyolite, a form of granite. Just over a third of a mile (0.5 km) to the North- ...