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I stopped off at this fella. Very difficult to assess. If I hadn't been told it was there I would never have guessed in was a long cairn. The whole thing seems more like a long Dyke. I can see where the cairn side comes in because someone had cut into the side of the beast and the thing is definitely constructed of rocks. The Easterly end is truncated by a ditch and bank, this could be a drainage ditch but it seems unlikely. All in all a very unsatisfying site. One thing though. It is yet another site on the eastern margins of the lakes running from Grey Yauds in the north to south of Shap following what I call the Eden/Lowther Corridor of sites (at least 30 of 'em). I'm sure the rivers are significant in possibly what were axe trade routes and junctions.

Posted by fitzcoraldo 8th September 2002ce

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