Little Meg

Little Meg
The Little Meg circle with the decorated stone in the foreground
Little Meg is located in Cumbria
Little Meg
Shown within Cumbria
LocationLittle Salkeld
grid reference NY57693749
Coordinates54°43′50″N 2°39′30″W / 54.73051°N 2.65845°W / 54.73051; -2.65845
TypeKerb cairn
History
PeriodsBronze Age

Little Meg (also known as the Maughanby circle) is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. 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. 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.

Two of the stones (only one remaining) were decorated in antiquity with a series of concentric circles and a spiral.