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Long Meg enclosure

Enclosure

fitzcoraldo May 17, 2004

NY 5730 3715
This is an egg shaped enclosure, bounded by a thin ditch containing several possible pits.
Source – “new evidence of ritual monuments at Long Meg and her Daughters, Cumbria”.
by Grahame Soffe & Tom Clare
Antiquity 62
1988

Sites within 20km of Long Meg enclosure

Long Meg & Her Daughters

Stone Circle • 0.22km NW

156

19

44

5
Little Meg

Stone Circle • 0.49km NE

41

1

19

2
Pond Enclosure and Brustop Wood

Enclosure • 0.76km W

2
Glassonby

Ring Cairn • 2.19km NNW

25

6

1
Old Parks

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 2.81km NNW

3
Stag Stones Farm

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 6.57km SW

1

1
Honeypot Stone

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 7.18km S

4

1

1
Holme Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.17km WSW

9

6
Winderwath

Standing Stone / Menhir • 8.22km SE

6

2
Brougham

Stone Circle • 9.65km SSW

2
Broomrigg

Stone Circle • 9.9km NW

24

4
King Arthur’s Round Table

Henge • 9.97km SSW

37

2

21
Little Round Table

Henge • 10.15km SSW

2

1

4
Mayburgh Henge

Henge • 10.22km SW

80

1

19

6
Skirsgill Standing Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 10.42km SW

5

1

5
Leacet Circle

Stone Circle • 10.84km S

25

8

1
Sewborrans

Standing Stone / Menhir • 11.11km SW

7

4
Mossthorn

Cairn(s) • 11.27km SW

2

2
Grey Yauds

Stone Circle • 11.91km NW

5

5
Clifton Standing Stones

Standing Stones • 11.95km SSW

11

7
Broad Mea Long Cairn

Long Cairn • 12.88km NE

5
Low Moor

Long Barrow • 13.26km SSW

14

7
Green Hill

Ring Cairn • 14.1km NE

3
Skirsgill Hill

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.77km SSW

1
Bold Venture

Ancient Mine / Quarry • 16.38km NE

2
Dunmallard Hill

Hillfort • 16.42km SW

6

1

1
Hut

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.47km NNE

2
Colouring Crags Long Cairn

Long Cairn • 16.68km NNE

3
Slaggyford Stones

Standing Stones • 16.77km NE

2

1
White Raise

Cairn(s) • 16.82km SSW

8

4
Moor Divock Centre

Ring Cairn • 16.89km SSW

6

2
Moor Divock Alignment

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.93km SSW

2

3
Alston Earthworks

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.01km ENE

1
Moor Divock SE

Ring Cairn • 17.02km SSW

19

4
Moor Divock

17.11km SSW

2

4

2
The Cop Stone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 17.19km SSW

19

6
The Cockpit

Stone Circle • 17.38km SW

41

1

5

1
Maiden Castle (Ullswater)

Hillfort • 17.65km SW

4

1

3

1
Cockpit Cairns

Cairn(s) • 17.72km SSW

11

3
Motherby (destroyed?)

Stone Circle • 17.74km WSW
Slaggyford Stone Rows

Stone Row / Alignment • 17.78km NE

2
Low Thornhope

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 17.86km NE

11

1

1
Kirkhaugh

Round Barrow(s) • 18km NE

1

2

3

2
Knipe Moor

Stone Circle • 18.22km S

14

8
Scarside Plantation

Hillfort • 18.39km S
Shapbeck Plantation

Stone Circle • 18.4km S

18

6
Knipescar Common

Ring Cairn • 18.64km S

1
Cold Fell

Cairn(s) • 18.79km N

5

1
Wilson Scar

Stone Circle • 19.03km S

1

2
Gunnerkeld

Stone Circle • 19.29km S

62

1

14

3