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Giant's Graves, Bampton
Giant's Graves
locality:-   Burnbanks
civil parish:-   Bampton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tumulus (?) 
coordinates:-   NY503159
1Km square:-   NY5015
10Km square:-   NY51
references:-   OS County Series

evidence:-   descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P082, button  goto source
Page 82:-  "On the common called Burnbanks, near the foot of Hawes Water, there are five tumuli of earth called Giants' Graves."

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