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  Karl Lofts, Shap perhaps 
tumulus, Skellaw Hill
site name:-   Skellaw Hill
civil parish:-   Shap (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   tumulus
coordinates:-   NY55651547
1Km square:-   NY5515
10Km square:-   NY51

photograph
BPK84.jpg (taken 4.7.2008)  
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
image FD01P141, button  goto source
Page 141:-  "..."
"... Karl Lofts, composed of two lines of huge unhewn masses of granite, ... near the north end a square plot of stones, partly covered with earth, above which, on Skellaw Hill, is a small tumulus. ..."
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