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| Green Castle, Milburn | ||
| Green Castle | ||
| locality:- | Milburn Forest | |
| civil parish:- | Milburn (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill (promontory?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY715311 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY7131 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY73 | |
| altitude:- | 2466 feet | |
| altitude:- | 752m | |
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 BSX18.jpg (taken 2.6.2010)  BRF41.jpg (taken 3.8.2009) |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old map:- Morden 1695 (Wmd) placename:- Green Castle |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by Robert
Morden, published by Abel Swale, the Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, Awnsham, and John
Churchill, the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. MD10NY72.jpg "Green Castle" No symbol, perhaps labelling the hillocks. item:- JandMN : 24 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Simpson 1746 map (Wmd) placename:- Green Castle |
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| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmorland, scale about 8 miles to 1
inch, printed by R Walker, Fleet Lane, London, 1746. SMP2NYR.jpg "Green C." item:- Dove Cottage : 2007.38.59 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old map:- Bowen and Kitchin 1760 placename:- Green Castle |
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| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, A New Map of the Counties of
Cumberland and Westmoreland Divided into their Respective Wards,
scale about 4 miles to 1 inch, by Emanuel Bowen and Thomas
Kitchin et al, published by T Bowles, Robert Sayer, and John
Bowles, London, 1760. BO18NY62.jpg "Green Cast." circle and ?flag item:- Armitt Library : 2008.14.10 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Green Castle item:- roman altar; altar, roman; inscription, roman; roman inscription |
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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 159:- "..." "... near to a place called Green castle, a round fort with deep trenches about it on the south end of Dunfell, was found an altar inscribed DEO SILVANO." |
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 BRF42.jpg (taken 3.8.2009) |
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| notes:- |
site of an earthwork |
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| Perriam, D R &Robinson, J: 1998: Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria: CWAAS::
ISBN 1 873124 23 6 |
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