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Cockpit, Barton
locality:-   Barton Fell
civil parish:-   Barton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   stone circle
coordinates:-   NY48272224
1Km square:-   NY4822
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 7 10) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Druidical Circle (remains of)"
circle of stones with a small square of stones on SE side 

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Cockpit, The
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, The Cockpit, stone circle, Barton Fell, Barton, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 290, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
image  click to enlarge
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On p.39 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  ""The Cockpit" / (Stone circle on / Barton Fell.)"
RCHME no. Wmd, Barton 28 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.29
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