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Roper Castle, Stainmore
Roper Castle
Round Table
civil parish:-   Stainmore (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman signal station
locality type:-   signal station
coordinates:-   NY88221115
1Km square:-   NY8811
10Km square:-   NY81

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 24) 
placename:-  Roper Castle
placename:-  Round Table
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.
"Roper Castle or Round Table"

evidence:-   site plan:- Historical Monuments 1936
placename:-  Roper Castle
source data:-   Site plan, uncoloured lithograph, Roper Castle, Stainmore, Westmorland, scale about 1 to 530, published by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, London, 1936.
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On p.217 of the Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland. 
printed, top  "ROPER CASTLE / In Stainmore parish"
RCHME no. Wmd, Stainmore 18 
item:-  Armitt Library : A745.130
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