Gents Mag 1902 part 2 p.427

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1902 part 2 p.427 Branstree and Harter Fell the Normans swarmed, and among the precipices of Goat Scar came the final tragedy. Forcing their way up a grassy slack, the invading host reached the top of Harter Fell and the battle was won. The Saxons had no other resource but fight, and against the iron-disciplned troops their valour was of little use. It was a fight to destruction. with no mercy, and the Normans won at awful cost. The lost expedition was never found; no trace of a horse or steel of foreign make was to be discovered in the Saxon caves, and the Baron of Kendal, who personally conducted the final siege, had to leave the mystery unsolved. Yet on fine summer evenings, when the purple shades are on the mountain sides, and the glittering mists hang on the summits, the dalesman has often been surprised to see, marching between the mist and the dale, sometimes high, sometimes low, a body of armed horsemen. With scouts in front, behind, below, above, they sweep along in disciplined order. They are the Norman band, condemned to walk the fells till they capture eighty Saxons slain some eight hundred years ago.
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