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<< Our Photo Pages >> Long Meg - Standing Stone (Menhir) in England in Cumbria
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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 23 December 2007 Page Views: 11476
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England
Site Name: Long Meg Alternative Name: Long Meg & her Daughters
Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Little Salkeld
Map Ref: NY571372 Landranger Map Number: 91
Latitude: 54.727945N Longitude: 2.667649W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Standing Stone in Cumbria. This is part of a fascinating Bronze Age site covering quite a large area. 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 standing. Long Meg herself is a 3.6 metre standing stone just outside the circle.
On the flat surface of Long Meg that faces the circle is a cup and ring mark, a spiral, and an incomplete concentric circle. Nearby is Little Meg.
Aerial photography in 1988 has revealed a huge earthen enclosure to the north of the circle which meets and matches the flattened northerly segment of the ring.
Tradition states that Long Meg and Her Daughters were a coven of witches who were holding their sabbat, some time in the thirteenth century. Michael Scot, a wizard from Scotland, found them so engaged and cast a spell over the assembled company, turning them all into stones.
In common with other circles, these stones are said to be uncountable, and if anyone can count them twice and arrive at the same total, the spell will be broken. It is also said that when a local squire attempted to remove the stones, a tremendous and terrifying storm broke out overhead and so the project was immediately abandoned. Finally, a prophecy tells us that if Long Meg were ever to be shattered, she would run with blood.
Access: 6.5 kilometres north-east of Penrith on the A686 road, a minor road leads north from Langwathby to Little Salkeld. 0.5 km beyond Little Salkeld a track off to the left leads directly to the site, and there is room to park alongside the track.
Note: Damage to Long Meg reported, see comment
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Long Meg and her daughters at sunset.
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Rock Art on Long meg.
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Long Meg and her daughters.
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Long Meg and her daughters at sunset.
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Long Meg and her rock art.
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Sunset at Long Meg and her daughters.
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Long Meg.
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Some Rock art on Long Meg.
 Long Meg submitted by Bladup
Long Meg at sunset.
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Long Meg and her daughters.
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Long Meg and her daughters at sunset.
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Long Meg rock art and the setting sun.
 Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Bladup
Sunset with Long Meg And Her Daughters.
 Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Bladup
Long Meg And Her Daughters.
 Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by Bladup
Sunset with Long Meg And Her Daughters.
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Re: Long Meg (Score: 1)
by Arjessa on Thursday, 27 December 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I visited the site many years ago, and it is interesting to note that nearby at Croglin (Lower Croglin) was an account given by a Captain Fisher of a reputed Vampire Attack, supposedly the only genuine recorded instance of such. The vampire was defeated, but his ghost is still said to haunt the location which is actually closer to Kirkoswald, where there is a pleasant nunnery walks, rather than to Croglin itself. Nearby again, at Renwick was the legend of a cockatrice or giant bat-like creature appeared when the church was demolished in 1733. And Long Meg and her Daughters themselves - all within but a few miles of each other. An eerie place to visit - and I remember it well! Never did manage to count the same amount of stones thrice, but we tried! | [ Reply to This ]
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Damage to Long Meg (Score: 1)
by Andy B on Sunday, 23 December 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | Nicola Didsbury writes:
I visited Long Meg Stone Circle on Friday 21st Dec. Someone has chipped away a five centimetre circle of stone from near her "nose".
I think it is a very bad attempt at a spiral.
The police were at the site, as the sunset, but I'm not sure if they were there to investigate the vanalism, or just to enjoy the sunset. | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Damage to Long Meg (Score: 1)
by Runemage on Wednesday, 26 December 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is awful.
I was there on the 19th at midday and she was fine then.
I don't know if it's common knowledge, but if you stand at the end of Meg's shadow at midday (and presumably also at midday at Solstice) then turn and look directly at her, the sun sits in the notch in her top.
Are there any updates as yet, Nicola? Did you get any photographs of the damage? |
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Re: Damage to Long Meg (Score: 1)
by DavidRaven (mail@davidraven.net) on Saturday, 05 January 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | I was there today (5/1/08) and noticed a similar patch of damage on the opposite side of the stone.
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Re: Long Meg (Score: 1)
by Keltica on Thursday, 27 May 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | Condition: 3
Ambience: 4
Access: 3
Took me a bit to find it but when I got there the family who were looking over it were leaving, so I had the place to myself.
A track to the farm beside it cuts through the lower quarter & there is no facility to park your car, so if it gets busy that would be a problem.
No attempt has been made to keep the grass cut around the stones & cows are allowed to make this impressive site a danger to expensive trainers (although I dont wear them).
People have began to decorate one of the trees with little trinkets which hang from the branches; bits of ribbon, small tokens.
I was there alone for two hours & I thought it was a great place just to watch the sky go by.
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