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Skellaw Hill, Shap
Skellaw Hill
civil parish:-   Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   hill
coordinates:-   NY55651551 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY5515
10Km square:-   NY51
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 14 14) 
placename:-  Skellaw Hill
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.
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Hill of Skulls
item:-  placename, Skellaw Hill
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
image G824A005, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1824 part 1 p.5  "... That it [Karl Lofts] was to commemorate some event, and probably a victory, seems more likely, and the name of Skellaw, i.e. the Hill of Skulls, strengthens the conjecture."
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