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Alston Earthworks Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Annaside Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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Ash House Carving |
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Aspers Field Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Aughertree Fell Enclosure |
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Banniside Stone Circle |
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19 posts
Barnscar Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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The Beacon Stone Circle |
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Beckstones Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Berry Holme Round Cairn |
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Binsey Cairn(s) |
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Black Combe |
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45 posts
1 site Blakeley Raise Stone Circle |
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3 sites Bleaberry Haws Stone Circle |
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Broadfell Cairn Round Cairn |
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Broomrigg Stone Circle |
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Brougham Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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4 sites Burn Moor Complex |
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Buttermere Cup Marked Stone |
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Carrock Fell Hillfort |
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Casterton Stone Circle |
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2 sites Castlehowe Scar Stone Circle |
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Castlerigg Stone Circle |
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Castle Crags, Mardale Hillfort |
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Castle Crag, Borrowdale Hillfort |
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Castle Crag, Shoulthwaite Hillfort |
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Castle Folds Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Castle How Hillfort |
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Castle Stead Hillfort |
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Cautley Iron Age Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Clifton Standing Stones Standing Stones |
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The Coombs, Martindale Cairn(s) |
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Copt Howe Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Croglam Castle Hillfort |
2 sites
Crosby Ravensworth Common Cairn(s) |
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Crummock Cup Marked Stone |
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The Currick Chambered Cairn |
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Dean Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Dovedale Henge Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Druidical Judgement Seat Rath |
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The Druid's Circle of Ulverston Stone Circle |
Druids Temple, Yewcroft
Stone Circle (Destroyed)
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Dunmail Raise Cairn(s) |
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Dunmallard Hill Hillfort |
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Ehenside Tarn Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Elterwater Common Cairn(s) |
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Elva Plain Stone Circle |
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2 sites Fairy Chapel Cave / Rock Shelter |
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Fell End Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Floutern Cop Cairn(s) |
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Four Stones Hill Standing Stones |
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Friar's Well
Barrow Cemetery
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Friar Gill Tumulus Round Barrow(s) |
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Gaisgill Ring Cairn |
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Gamelands Stone Circle Stone Circle |
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Gaythorn Plain Ring Cairn |
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Giant's Foot Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Giant's Grave |
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Giant's Grave Cairn Circle Ring Cairn |
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5 sites Gillalees Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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1 site Glaramara Stone Axe Factories Ancient Mine / Quarry |
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Glassonby Ring Cairn |
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The Goggleby Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Grasmere
Stone Circle (Destroyed)
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Grasmere Cup Marked Stone |
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Great Langdale Cup Marked Stone |
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Great Mell Fell Barrow Cemetery |
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Great Urswick Burial Chamber |
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Great Urswick Fort Hillfort |
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Gretigate Stone Circle |
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Greycroft Stone Circle Stone Circle |
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Grey Yauds Stone Circle |
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Gunnerkeld Stone Circle |
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Hall Foss Stone Circle |
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Harberwain Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Hardendale Fell Stone Circle |
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High Hugill Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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High Raise Cairn(s) |
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Hird Wood Circle Stone Circle |
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Hollin Stump Cairn(s) |
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Holme Head Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Honeypots Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Iron Hill Cairn(s) |
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Kemp Howe Stone Circle |
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The Kirk Stone Circle |
Kirkby Moor
Cairn(s)
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Kirkhead Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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The Kirkstone Natural Rock Feature |
Kirkstones
Stone Circle (Destroyed)
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2 sites Knipe Moor Stone Circle |
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7 sites Lacra Stone Circle |
Lamplugh
Stone Circle (Destroyed)
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3 sites Langdale Axe Factory Ancient Mine / Quarry |
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Leacet Circle Stone Circle |
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Leonard's Cragg Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Levens Brow Earthworks Enclosure |
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Leven's Park Ring Cairn |
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Little Kinmond Round Cairn |
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Little Meg Stone Circle |
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3 sites Long Meg & Her Daughters Stone Circle |
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Lousy Brow 2 Enclosure |
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Low Moor Long Barrow |
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Low Raise Cairn(s) |
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Maiden Castle Cairn(s) |
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Maiden Castle Hillfort |
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Mallerstang Bronze Age Cairns Cairn(s) |
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Mallerstang Pillow Mounds Artificial Mound |
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3 sites Mayburgh & King Arthur's Round Table |
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Mazon Wath Round Cairn |
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Mickleden Beck Cairn(s) |
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Middle Barrow Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Mill Rigg Settlement Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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7 sites Moor Divock |
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Mossthorn Cairn(s) |
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Motherby (destroyed?)
Stone Circle
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4 sites Oddendale Stone Circle |
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Old Parks Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Penhurrock |
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Raise Howe Cairn(s) |
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Rasett Hill Round Cairn |
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Rawthey Bridge Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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Rayseat Pike Long Cairn |
Ringlen Stones (destroyed?)
Stone Circle
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Robin Hood's Grave Cairn(s) |
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Rusland Standing Stone / Menhir |
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1 site Sampson's Bratfull Long Barrow |
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Scalford Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Scober Stone Circle (Destroyed) |
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Seal Howe Cairn(s) |
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Seatallan Cairn(s) |
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Selside Pike Cairn(s) |
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Senhouse Museum Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Sewborrans Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Shapbeck Plantation Stone Circle |
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1 site The Shap Avenues Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue |
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Shap Wells Ancient Mine / Quarry |
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Skellaw Hill Round Barrow(s) |
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Skelmore Heads Longbarrow Long Barrow |
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Skirsgill Hill Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Skirsgill Standing Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Stag Stones Farm Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art |
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Studfold Gate Stone Circle |
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Sunbiggin Ring Cairn |
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Sunbiggin Tarn Stone Circle |
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Sunkenkirk Stone Circle |
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Swarth Fell Stone Circle |
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Threaplands (destroyed?) Stone Circle |
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Thunder Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Toad Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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3 sites Tongue How Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Tongue How
Ring Cairn
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1 site Tortie Cup Marked Stone |
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Towtop Kirk Enclosure |
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Troutbeck Park Cairn(s) |
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Waitby Castle Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
Le Wheles (destroyed?)
Stone Circle
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Whitehouse Four-Poster
Stone Circle
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White Borran
Cairn(s)
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2 sites White Hag Stone Circle |
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White Raise
Cairn(s)
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Whitrow Beck Stone Circle |
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Wicker Street Cairn(s) |
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Wild Boar Fell
Sacred Hill
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Wilson Scar Stone Circle |
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Winderwath Standing Stone / Menhir |
Sites of disputed antiquity:
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Eller Barrow Round Barrow(s) |
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The Fairy Steps Natural Rock Feature |
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Holy Well, Humphrey Head Sacred Well |
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Popping Stone Natural Rock Feature |
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Potter Fell Stone Circle |
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Priapus Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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St. Cuthbert's Stone & Well (Waverbridge) Sacred Well |
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St. Michael's Well, Gleaston Sacred Well |
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Wrynose Pass Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Archaeology Dayschool - Much more than Stone Axes - An update on Cumbrian PrehistoryArchaeology Dayschool - Much more than Stone Axes - An update on Cumbrian Prehistory Saturday 11 October 10.00am - 4... continues... |
Posted by rockartwolf2nd September 2008ce |
Prehistoric Rock - art in Cumbria - LecturePrehistoric Rock - art in Cumbria Venue: Yew Tree Hall High Lorton (near Cockermouth) Date: 10th July 2008 Time: 7.30pm How to book: Not required Price: Visitors £2 Tel: Ted Gilbertson 01900 85482 Lecturer: Dr... continues... |
Posted by rockartwolf 8th July 2008ce |
Dig Planned for Lakes Beauty SpotArchaeologists are hoping to unearth ancient treasures during excavations in a Cumbrian valley. Volunteers are needed to join archaeologists during the digs in the Duddon Valley in the south west of the Lake District beginning on 30 June... continues... |
Posted by The Eternal 27th June 2007ce Edited 27th June 2007ce |
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People and the Land Settlement in the Eden Valley: Prehistoric to Present Day Saturday 6th October 2007 Appleby Archaeology Group Autumn Conference - People and the Land Settlement in the Eden Valley: Prehistoric to Present Day at Appleby Grammar School. Event takes place between 9.30am and 4pm. Contact Harry Hawkins on 01768 864340. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo17th March 2007ce Edited 18th March 2007ce |
Cumbrian Henge TourSaturday 21st July 2007 A visit to Two Cumbrian Henges with Helen Caffrey. Event takes place at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith. Henges are circular ceremonial sites dating from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age... continues... |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 17th March 2007ce Edited 17th March 2007ce |
Aspects of Prehistoric CumbriaSaturday 28th April 2007 Aspects of Prehistoric Cumbria - CNWRS study day to be held at Penrith Methodist Church, Wordsworth Street, Penrith in conjunction with the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society... continues... |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 17th March 2007ce Edited 17th March 2007ce |
Cash boost for new Lakes websiteA website featuring thousands of sites of archaeological interest in Cumbria's Lake District is being set up with the help of a £171,000 grant. The district has more than 6,500 historical attractions including Shap Abbey, Castlerigg Stone Circle and Hardknott Roman Fort... continues... |
Posted by The Eternal 20th May 2006ce |
Dig Planned for Lakes Beauty Spothttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/4795288.stm Archaeologists hope to unearth Bronze Age treasures after receiving £50,000 to help fund a dig in a Cumbria valley... continues... |
Posted by The Eternal 11th March 2006ce Edited 12th March 2006ce |
Good and Bad news from the Lake District£1m to be cut from Lakes' budget Almost £1m is to be slashed from the budget of the organisation responsible for the Lake District National Park. read more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4521944... continues... |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 27th January 2006ce Edited 28th January 2006ce |
£24k Grant to Bring Eden Neolithic Heritage to LifeEden District Council's Penrith Museum is celebrating news that they have been awarded over £24,000 from the Local Heritage Initiative, a scheme run by the Countryside Agency on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Nationwide Building Society... continues... |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 11th December 2005ce Edited 11th December 2005ce |
Archaeology in the Lake District 2005 - Day Conference26th November 2005 The annual archaeology conference at the Lakes School , Troutbeck Bridge, Windermere. Including - Exploring Lower Eskdale... continues... |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 24th September 2005ce |
Heritage Hopes For Lake DistrictAn estimated £300,000 will have to be spent over two years to make the case for turning the Lake District into a World Heritage Site, it has been claimed. The Lake District National Park Authority has been trying since 1985 to win World Heritage status by Unesco, which is part of the United Nations... continues... |
Posted by Kozmik_Ken8th October 2003ce Edited 8th October 2003ce |
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Leave the axes where they are from BBCi Plea to walkers over relics A Cumbrian museum has urged hill walkers to leave Neolithic relics where they find them on the fells. Stone axes are often found on Lake District scree slopes, and the Tullie House Museum in Carlisle is showing people how to recognise them, enjoy them but not to take them home. Whole story here |
Posted by Jane14th September 2003ce |
Time Team turns up Langdale Axe in UlverstonFrom the NorthWest Evening Mail http://www.nwemail.co.uk/viewarticle... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon3rd July 2003ce |
Pre-Roman body found in bedrock in Levens, nr KendalHuman remains which could be about 4,000 years old have been unearthed by archaeologists working in a Cumbrian village. A team of archaeologists found the body curled up in the foetal position in a cavity in the limestone bedrock on a building site opposite the church in Levens, near Kendal... continues... |
Posted by Rhiannon 9th December 2002ce |
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A lovely dialect tribute to Thomas Bland. Taken from LEGENDS AND HISTORICAL NOTES ON PLACES OF NORTH WESTMORELAND. BY THOS. GIBSON, M.D. Published 1887 THE ANTIQUARY. BY ANTHONY WHITEHEAD, OF REAGILL, NEAR SHAP. YE strangers that ramble down't Vale of Lyvennet, To see bonny Nature and breathe the fresh air, Fra the spring at Black Dub a't way down to the Eden There's seines interesting, romantic, and rare. Westward fra the Dub 'boute a cannon-shot distance There's cromlecks an' cairns full of auld Celtic baynes ; A temple where't Druids sang prayers to the plannets, Set aw arround wi' a circle o' staynes. An' in times leayter still, when the Romans reayde foray, An' meayde a new wroad as they crossed ouer the fell, May be seen to this day, near the black dub ye find it, An' if you dispute me ga see for yoursel'. There's many quere places a't way doon the valley, An' Hamelets or toons where the Brittans did dwell ; There's traces o' some to be seen in t' Lang-deayle, But men, farther larn'd, their origin may tell. Crosby Kirk, of auld standing, next claims oor attention, Wi' awe an' wi' reverence oor minds for to fill ; Flass House is a feature 'at ought to be mentioned, An' Addison's birthplace on Meaburn Hill. But the main pleayce I wish to point out to your notice Is Reagill, where yance leev'd the fam'd Thomas Bland, An' auld antiquary, cramfull o' queer notions As any you'll find in the length o' the land. He kent a' the history o' t' world's creation, Fra t' making of Adam to t' birth o' Tom Thumb ; He tell't us the earth's composition was gasses, An' fowak meayde of air seayme as a baloon. He talk'd about metals being fused by eruption, An' how they were melted like souder or tin ; He kent aw the strata of rock fra the surface Aw t' way doon to the boiling het fluid within. He scabbl'd off shells fra the hard rock o' limestone, An' sed they'd been fishes, some thousand years sen ; He was crack'd, that's a cartainty, out of aw question, To think of imposing o' sensible men. Then sec a collection of rubbish an' kelder, Auld things 'at he tell't us the Brittans yance meayde ; Bits o' spears, meayde o' flint, broken millstones and trinkums, Sec a cargo o' kelder, a decent ship-leayde. Gang when you would, between sunrise an' setting, You'd find him in't garden, or else in his den, Where he spent aw his time wi' his mell an' his chisel, His paint-brush an' canvas or scetch-book an' pen. He wad travel ten mile, wi' a sketch-bewke in nap-sack, To draw some auld shield 'at he might wish to see ; An' than fra the dots, cross lines, an' the shap on't, He wad spin oot a yarn of their lang pedigree ; An' tell who's it was, whether duke, lord, or baron, An' how they behaved when they went a crusade ; Or, if 'twas a she 'at the shield had belanged tul, He could tell ye at yance if sh'd deed an auld maid. He'd creatures of aw macks stuck up in his garden, Fra a Hippotamus to Whittington's cat ; Lions, dogs, deevils, wild boars, an' teayme eagles, Beats Wombwell's Managery hollow an' flat. There's Addison, Caesar, St. George, an' Hugh Miller, Poet Burns, an' lots mair, I forgitten their neayms ; An' busts o' girt men fra aw parts o' the world, An' some in the meun, I dare say, hed their heayms. In the cauld days o' winter he set on a fire In a grate like a helmet, stuck in a w'hole ; A shield for his shovel, a sword for his poker, And an Indian tomahawk split the girt-cwoal. He pay'd equal respect to a bewk-larn'd beggar, A hawker, a squire, a duke, or a lord ; If they talk'd about science or tell't a good stowry He grappled it aw, without missing a word. Tho' a wreck of the former, 'tis still interesting, An' the owner will give you admission quite free ; Sea, if you be strangers, don't fear you'll be welcome, If you come up to Reagill, the Garden to see. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 12th November 2007ce Edited 12th November 2007ce |
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Kendal MuseumThe Museum of Kendal, one of the oldest in the country, covering a wide range of archaeology, as well as the geology and natural history of Cumbria, and the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. |
Posted by The Eternal 20th May 2009ce |
Historic Environment Record On-line |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 9th October 2008ce |
Stone Circles of Cumbria"It does exactly what it says on the tin" |
Posted by stubob13th December 2005ce |
Mountain Weather Information Service - Cumbrian MountainsDetailed 3-day weather forecast for the Cumbrian mountains, with conditions on the fells. |
Posted by The Eternal 30th October 2005ce |
CumbriaSteve Bulman's excellent Cumbria resource. Chokka block with parish records and antiquarian goings on. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 16th February 2005ce |
CWAASAs part of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (CWAAS) Website: The Clare Fell Memorial Bursary - money awarded to under-25s hoping to undertake a project relating to Cumbrian prehistoric archaeology (or of another region, so long as they live in Cumbria). |
Posted by Rhiannon 10th December 2004ce Edited 10th December 2004ce |
Daily Lake District Weather Forecast |
Posted by juamei19th June 2004ce |
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland Vol 4 1860-62Article by the Rev James Simpson - Vicar of Shap Stone Circles near Shap, Westmoreland. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo 2nd June 2004ce Edited 2nd June 2004ce |
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Castle Crag, Borrowdale (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by GLADMAN9th March 2010ce |
Castlerigg (Stone Circle) — Images |
 
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Knipe Moor (Stone Circle) — Folklore |
... I am told that the Scar Races were held here in early summer. There is a stretch of ground more than a mile long and several yards wide which has at some period been cleared and roughly levelled like a terrace, and this is known as "the race-course."From an article by Miss Noble: "The Stone Circle on Knipe Scar", in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (v 7, 1907). |
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Knipe Moor (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN 14th February 2010ce |
Castle Crag, Borrowdale (Hillfort) — Images |
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Castlerigg (Stone Circle) — Images |
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Gamelands Stone Circle — Images |
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Mayburgh Henge — Links |
Internet Archive"Mayburgh and King Arthur's Round Table" by C W Dymond (1890). The text might not have anything new for you, but the carefully scanned in illustrations are superb and well worth a look. |
Posted by Rhiannon 13th February 2010ce |
Mayburgh Henge — Images |
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