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| tumulus, Warcop | ||
| locality:- | Sandford | |
| civil parish:- | Warcop (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tumulus | |
| coordinates:- | NY73381706 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7317 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY71 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- sword; urn; spear |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 159:- "..." "Near Sandford field corner on the right hand of the road from Warcop towards Appleby, not far from the Roman road are three or four tumuli: the largest 91 paces in circumference, the second 86, the next about 40, the last a small one almost defaced. The largest was cut through 1766, and half a yard below the summit was found a small urn in a larger, containing a few white ashes: by it, a little deeper, lay a sword with a curious carved hilt two feet long and two inches and an half broad, the haft three inches and a quarter, and the heads of two spears; fragments of a helmet, and umbo of a shield three inches and three-quarters diameter. Below these a great heap of stones piled up pyramidally, in diameter six or seven yards, concealed a square place about four feet by two, containing rich black mould two inches deep, in which were many human bones which evidently appeared to have been burnt. Near these tumuli is a small camp with a single trench, and at a small distance on another hill another of about the same dimensions." |
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