Long Meg

A large blue stone called Long Meg was long believed to cover the remains of twenty-eight monks stricken by the plague, but like many another Abbey legend this is scarcely credible when we recall the busy monastic life which went on in these cloisters, and the fact that the cemetery was outside the Lady Chapel.

Westminster Abbey A. Murray Smith 1877

The fashionable interest in antiquities is also marked by an elegantly sparing sketch of Long Meg, near Shap Fell, the largest prehistoric circle in the north.

A passion for painting in the Lake District 2011

The stories about Grendel's mother and Long Meg are similar to those still repeated in the Scottish Highlands.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904