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Hi Andy
I may be wrong but I thought drumlins could form anywhere along the route of the flow. You must be familiar with those lovely ice worn outcrops that you get in the bottom of many of the lakeland valleys. All that's required is for glacial till to start being deposited over the outcrop and a drumlin forms. From your photo it looks like the mound is orientated along the valley which could also support the glacial theory.

I guess another none prehistoric explanation could be a pillow mound just like those in the upper Eden valley by Pendragon Castle but I guess the smaller mounds may knock that theory on the heed.

As Mr Stonelifter says, why not drop an enquiry in to your local archaeologist and ask their opinion.

He wouldn't turn out, but it is the formality to inform them. There's research being done into glaciers, as they're topical, and a drumlin was recently observed being formed ( http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11032-drumlin-formed-in-a-blink-of-geological-time.html ). The little mound in the foreground of the first picture is interesting, but it's very hard, if not impossible, to get the sense of a site without visiting it over and over and seeing how it fits into the wider landscape.

Drumlins usually occur in groups like the photos, individual deposits are unlikely and certainly not that far down the valley

http://www.andyfellwalker.com/Egg/Western/Buttermere_to_Ennerdale_and_back/102%20Ennerdale%20drumlins.htm

http://www.andyfellwalker.com/Egg/Eastern/Dark_Side_of_Fairfield/039%20Deepdale.htm