Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| tumulus, Rayseat | ||
| locality:- | Rayseat | |
| civil parish:- | Crosby Garrett (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tumulus | |
| coordinates:- | NY68390725 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6807 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY60 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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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. goto sourcePage 162:- "..." "At Rasate in Ravenstonedale parish, not far from Sunbiggin tarn, are two tumuli, in which have been found many skeletons laid round about the hills, with the heads all lying upwards towards the hill top, and the hands on the breasts. ..." |
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