Petrified witchesFamous
Michael Scot's Petrified Coven
Dancing turned to stone.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Huge oval circle and a tall outlier
- Legend from
- Penrith
- Tone
- Eerie
A coven of stone.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is one of Britain's largest stone circles, with the tall outlying stone Long Meg. Legend says Meg and her daughters were a coven of witches turned to stone by the wizard Michael Scot. The stones are also said to be uncountable. The name was in use by about 1600.