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| Giant's Graves, Bampton | ||
| Giant's Graves | ||
| locality:- | Burnbanks | |
| civil parish:- | Bampton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | tumulus (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY503159 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY5015 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY51 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 82:- "On the common called Burnbanks, near the foot of Hawes Water, there are five tumuli of earth called Giants' Graves." |
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