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| Little Meg, Hunsonby | ||
| Little Meg | ||
| Maughanby Stone Circle | ||
| civil parish:- | Hunsonby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone circle (?) | |
| locality type:- | tumulus | |
| locality type:- | cairn circle | |
| coordinates:- | NY57683747 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5737 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY53 | |
| altitude:- | 558 feet | |
| altitude:- | 170m | |
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| evidence:- | possibly old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 190:- "..." "... a smaller circle of 20 stones, 50 feet diameter, and at some distance above it another single stone, regarding it as Meg does her circle." |
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The 11 stones are an irregular ring about 5.9x4.7m, they were the kerb stones of a
tumulus over a burial cist, but are now uncovered. The site is confused by boulders
cleared from the field. One large stone has a spiral and concentric circles; another,
now missing, had cup and ring marks. Early bronze age. |
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| Waterhouse, John: 1985: Stone Circles of Cumbria: Phillimore and Co (Chichester, Sussex)::
ISBN 0 85033 566 3 Burl, H A W: 1976: Stone Circles of the British Isles: Yale University Press (United States) |
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| notes:- |
The kerb stone furthest into the field is marked; also two stones in Penrith Museum. |
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| Becckensall, Stan: 2002: Prehistoric Rock Art in Cumbria: Tempus Publishing (Stroud,
Gloucestershire) |
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