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| Raisgill Hill, Orton S | ||
| Raisgill Hill | ||
| locality:- | Raisgill (?) | |
| civil parish:- | Orton S (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tumulus | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6306 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY60 | |
| references:- | Camden 1789 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Raisgill Hill item:- tumulus; human bones |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. Page 156:- "... Near Raisgill hill is a tumulus in a regular circle near 100 yards in circumference, about three high, composed of loose stones, and covering a large stone, supported by one other on each side, and under it a human skeleton, with the bones of several others round about." |
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