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<The round stone sheepfolds, maybe three hundred years old, are the last vestiges of the roundhouse tradition - as I see it>

There's an nice example of this in Langdale, right up at the end of the valley, just to the left of the Cumbrian way. It's about 4ft high, and still has different rooms.

I have broken sheepfolds coming out of my ears ! I've been altering these into sculptures for many years now and have a long list to 'see to'. Excluding sheep makes them into something else, I reckon, and the round one I want to get to is a mile upstream (or upburn) from the Holymire site. It's interesting speculating which folds are related to each other. Where the peat is deep they are floated on a foundation of very large flag stones and as these stones wander the structure goes with it.

This could possibly be a sheiling, which is a sort of summer house for a shepherd. They are probably the last houses to be built in the round-house tradition.