Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Little Meg
	other name:-	Maughanby Stone Circle
	parish	Hunsonby parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		stone circle; tumulus; cairn circle
	Altitude	558 feet
	coordinates:-	NY577375
	10Km square:-	NY53
	1Km square	NY5737
		Little Meg -- Hunsonby -- Cumbria / -- 26.8.2005
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) -- possibly relevant
		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.
		Page 190:-
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		... 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.
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
		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. 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)
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2013

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