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Raisbeck Pinfold, Raisbeck
Raisbeck Pinfold
locality:-   Raisbeck
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   pinfold
locality type:-   cone pinfold
locality type:-   sculpture
coordinates:-   NY64730714
1Km square:-   NY6407
10Km square:-   NY60


photograph
BMH97.jpg (taken 7.7.2006)  
photograph
BMH98.jpg (taken 7.7.2006)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 29 1) 
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.
"Sheepfold"

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Renewed by Andy Goldsworthy as part of the Sheepfolds project, 1996-2002.
One of six pinfolds with a cone sculpture:-
"... guardian of a village or a seed within the outer protective shell of the pinfold ..."

: 2002 (?): Andy Goldsworthy Sheepfolds: Cumbria CC (?):: leaflet from TIC
www.sheepfolds.org

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Remains only, 1979.

Dobbie, B M W: 1979: Pounds or Pinfolds and Lockups: Bath University Library (Bath, Somerset):: ISBN 0 900843 34 9

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