River Eamont near its confluence with the River Lowther. Long Meg and her Daughters lie on a terrace above water, immediately to the south of a ditched enclosure that runs round the present farm. This ditch seems to pre-date the circle of stones, as the latter is deliberately flattened to take the enclosure into account. A spring lies just above the northern perimeter of the enclosure, and another spring may have existed within the enclosure itself. Another, smaller, enclosure lies to the south-east. Although the circle appears to have been built on a slope, Clare suggests that the large enclosure was made across a valley up to 16 ft (5m) deep. This valley leads to the River Eden where deposits of gypsum are found. It is possible, therefore, like the henges at Thornborough in North Yorkshire, that the banks of the ditched enclosure and the stone circle "may have been white." Construction The monument is 120yd (109m) × 100yd (93m) in diameter. Long Meg herself stands 80 ft (25m) outside the circle, 20 ft (6m) above the farthest stone in the circle, "and is the tallest of the 69 stones at 12ft (c. 3.8m) high and weighing c.9 tons (tonnes)." The Long Meg monolith is of local red sandstone, probably from the River Eden or the nearby Lazonby hills, whereas the circle stones are of rhyolite and are glacial erratics. Two large blocks are placed to the east and west and there are two extra 'portal' stones placed to the south-west. The placement of Long Meg is in the alignment between the centre of the circle and the point of the midwinter sunset. The south-west face of Long Meg has crystals in it, whereas the face looking towards the circle has spirals and other rock art inscribed on it. The circle may have had a bank running round some of the stones at least, and the centre may have been scraped out to some extent. The English antiquary William Dugdale (1605-1686) reported that there were "two barrows of cobble-stones, nine or ten feet high" in the centre of the circle. It is thought that these were later burials using cobbles from the surrounding area. Four of the stones in the circle appear to be non-local and are formed of quartz crystal. They seem to have been deliberately selected and placed at specific points in the circle that mark certain calendrical