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New evidence of ritual monuments at Long Meg and her Daughters, Cumbria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Grahame Soffe  and
Tom Clare
Grahame Soffe
Affiliation:
Royal Commission on the Historical Monumtents of England, Fortress House, 23 Savile Row, London w1x 1AB
Tom Clare
Affiliation:
County Planning Department, County Offices. Kcndal, Cumbria LA9 4RQ
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A note on Long Meg and her Daughters, the monolith and stone circle in Cumberland,

provides excuse to quote both Stukeiey on the whole: ‘A great Celtic temple’; and Wordsworth on Long Meg herself: Speak Thou, whose massy strength and stature scorn The power of years - pre-eminent, and placed Apart, to overlook the circle vast Speak, Giant-Mother!

More to the point, these new findings from air photography report new field monuments to with the standing circle and the second circle that Stukeley drew, and require a reappraisal of the Neolithic to Eariy Bronze Age monuments in Cumbria.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 552 - 557
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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