Floutern Cop

Nearest town:
Cockermouth (14km NNW)
OS reference:
NY127175
OS sheet:
89
Latitude:
54° 32' 41.94 N
Longitude:
3° 20' 58.83 W
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Images

Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking towards the cairn sited beneath Hen Comb and above Floutern Tarn. The view point is Great Borne.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 18, 2010
Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by GLADMAN

Looking across Floutern Tarn from Great Borne. Luckily the farmer doesn’t ‘own’ this bit!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jul 18, 2010
Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by The Eternal

30-06-06 Floutern Cop from Grasmoor, looking W. Mellbreak is the fell with the pink scree, her beautiful feet washed by the pure Crummock Water. Life is sometimes too much, but places like this help you cope. The wind, the rain, the sun, the smell of the sweet mountain grasses, and the liquid call of the raven, cartwheeling across a troubled sky – all these things mean so much more than the monetary trappings of “life”...........and let’s not forget the prehistoric sites we love so much.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal Sep 17, 2006
Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by The Eternal

08/04/06 Floutern Cop Bronze Age cairn looking into the centre from the N.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal Apr 9, 2006
Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by The Eternal

08/04/06 Floutern Cop Bronze Age cairn view of the centre from the E.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal Apr 9, 2006
Image of Floutern Cop (Cairn(s)) by The Eternal

08/04/06 Floutern Cop Bronze Age cairn looking from the N edge across the E edge.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal Apr 9, 2006

Articles

Floutern Cop

The Eternal
The Eternal Apr 9, 2006

08/04/06
A day of snow showers and bitter winds. The snow that plastered the central and eastern Lakeland mountains was a litte higher around the Buttermere, Crummock, and Loweswater hills, with little around the cairn. The wind was bitter, and snow showers raked the hills all day.
The cairn is set on a low ridge, above boggy ground, on the ridge top, but not on an obviously high point. It is situated on a down slope, above a broad col, on a ridge leading to a low summit. A most unusual place.
The centre looks like it has been dug out, or do I mean excavated. It looks like it’s tough shit, no records exist.
It’s about 2 to 3 feet high, and about 25 to 30 feet in diameter. Why it was set here is anybodys guess. Is it connected with the Crummock rock art? Westwards, over a high ridge, lies the West Cumberland Plain, where many Bronze Age Settlements have been found.

Miscellaneous

Floutern Cop
Cairn(s)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Nov 4, 2011

Much interfered with cairn below Great Borne. Pastscape description:

Remains of a round cairn 8.5m in diameter and up to 0.4m high. It would appear that at some time the centre was completely excavated and the stones piled around the perimeter, ... but subsequently the removed material has tumbled back so that the central pit is now only 0.8m deep.

Miscellaneous

Floutern Cop
Cairn(s)
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 29, 2009

The approach from the west is by way of a Public Bridleway, with two access points from the minor road at the north-western tip of Ennerdale Water.

However please be extra careful how you park if you choose this route – and it is well worth the effort since the retrospective of Ennerdale Water is stunning and the gradient nice ‘n’ easy – since I unfortunately had the great misfortune of coming into contact with the local landowner, clearly a very unhappy man with, shall we say, some major ‘issues’ which he seriously needs to address. You’ll get an idea of the mentality of the man from the misspelt sign banning access to Great Borne further up the bridleway – oh dear. Needless to say intimidation does not work upon Gladman, as of course it shouldn’t.

So take a mobile – even better with video to capture any ‘issues’ – park properly and enjoy a great walk to a wonderfully remote site.

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