....Long Meg and her Daughters... As we approach the Winter Solstice, the shortest day, and the return of the sun, here’s a few pics taken a winter or two ago with a winter sun setting over Long Meg…. It struck us how long the shadow of Long Meg was, resembling some kind of enormous sundial. (There was also a half-moon visible which you can see to the side of Long Meg in the single picture of her.) From Wikipedia: Long Meg and her Daughters - a Bronze Age stone circle near Penrith 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 lasted from 3,300 to 900 BCE, during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.The stone circle is the sixth-biggest example known from this part of north-western Europe, being slightly smaller than the rings at Stanton Drew in Somerset, the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney and Newgrange in County Meath. It primarily consists of 59 stones (of which 27 remain upright) set in an oval shape measuring 100 m on its long axis. There may originally have been as many as 70 stones. Long Meg herself is a 3.6 m high monolith of red sandstone 25 m to the southwest of the circle made by her Daughters. Long Meg is marked with examples of megalithic art including a cup and ring mark, a spiral and rings of concentric circles. Infra-red aerial photography has identified several undated enclosures that seem to pre-date the Long Meg circle in the area. There is also the smaller stone circle of Little Meg (Maughanby) close by. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_Meg_and_Her_Daughters&oldid=632279698 Thanks for reading :) Anne Justbod Team
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:25:00 +0000
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