Long Meg and her daughters
The stones probably date from about 1500 BC, and were likely to have been used as a meeting place or for some form of religious ritual. Long Meg is made of local red sandstone, whereas the daughters are boulders of rhyolite, a form of granite.
The circle has a diameter of about 350 feet, the second biggest in the country. Long Meg is the tallest of the 69 stones, about 12 feet high, with three mysterious symbols, its four corners facing the points of the compass and standing some 60 feet outside the circle.
William Wordsworth wrote “Next to Stonehenge it is beyond dispute the most notable relic that this or probably any other country contains.”