Little Meg

Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn [1]. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria and is 650 metres north-east of the more famous stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters [1]. It forms part of a complex of stone circles and cairns around the Long Meg site that includes the circle at Glassonby, Old Parks, and other sites since lost [1]. Two of the stones (only one remaining) were decorated in antiquity with a series of concentric circles and a spiral [1]. When first discovered in the middle of the nineteenth century, there was a c.1.3m mound covering the stones [1]. Bones, charcoal and a 'coarse pot' were found buried in a cist at the centre of the circle [1]. Two stones found in the cist (now in Penrith Museum), have cup and ring markings [1].