A HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND 
heaps, show that it protected burials, probably similar to those under the 
tumulus at Old Parks, Kirkoswald. They have long ago disappeared 
under the advance of cultivation. It should be mentioned that Lon 
Meg stands upon the highest part of the site, and that the road through 
the entrance is therefore uphill. At Swinside and Keswick the road goes 
downhill. 
A few hundred yards to the east of Long Meg, in a field called 
Whins, is a cist, which has been mentioned before, ante p. 243. This 
formerly had a mound of earth over it, and is within a circle of eleven 
stones, on two of which are ring cuttings : one of them is known as the 
Maughanby Stone. 
The county histories, all copying Nicolson and Burn, published in 
1777, say there was on a fell called King Harry, in the parish of Cum- 
whitton, seven miles south-east of Carlisle, and seven miles north-west of 
Kirkoswald, a stone circle, with external menhir, consisting of about 
eighty-eight stones in an exact circle, 52 yards in diameter. None of 
the stones were above 4 or 5 feet high. This circle was known as ‘The 
Greys Yauds’ or ‘Grey Horses,’ and was almost wholly destroyed when 
the common was enclosed, the stones being utilized for building walls.’ 
In a field called Yamonside, on the left bank of the Eamont, nearly 
due south of Fluskew Hill in the parish of Dacre, Dr. M. W. Taylor 
traced the remains of four concentric stone circles with a central menhir. 
The innermost circle is formed of twelve or thirteen stones, and has a 
diameter of 60 feet; the next of nine stones, with a diameter of go 
feet ; the third of eighteen or twenty stones and a diameter of 120 feet ; 
and the outermost of thirteen or fourteen stones and a diameter of 156 
feet or thereabouts. The stones, from Dr. Taylor’s account, seem to be 
grown over with grass and earth ; he calls them ‘buried,’ and he had 
to probe for them ; it may be that Yamonside is merely a field, covered 
with boulders, great quantities of which were removed from the next 
field in 1866. Dr. Taylor’s account was written in 1868.” 
There was once, according to the county histories, a stone circle, 
80 feet in diameter, at a place called Chapel Flat, in the parish of Dalston. 
Near it was a tumulus g feet high and 24 feet in diameter. These have 
disappeared. A stone circle, near Stockhow Hall in the parish of 
Lamplugh, called Standing Stones, was destroyed by blasting, in the first 
half of the nineteenth century, for the purpose of making fences. Only six 
large stones of the northern segment remained in 1842. AA stone circle 
near Motherby, in the parish of Greystoke, about 50 feet in diameter, 
was blasted away by order of the steward of the Duke of Norfolk in the 
first half of the rgth century. Another stone circle formerly existed 
near Seascale Hall, and a dubious second and still more doubtful third 
are said to have existed in the Keswick district. One of these is said to 
have consisted of twelve stones, none above 2 feet high, and to have 
1 Nicolson and Burn, ii. p. 4953; and Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland 
Antiquarian and Archeological Society, vol. vi. p. 468. 
2 Ibid. vol. i. pp. 154, 167, 168. 
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