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archaeological site, Tarn Moss
locality:-   Tarn Moss
civil parish:-   Hutton (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   archaeological site (perhaps) 
coordinates:-   NY400275 (guess) 
1Km square:-   NY4027
10Km square:-   NY42

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 54:-  "... between the hill [Great Mell Fell] and the mile-post [8 from Penrith] is a piece of antiquity of a very singular structure; it consists of a kind of flooring of large stones, about seven yards long and five broad; its figure resembles an egg with a piece cut off the smaller end, and the stones are so large and close laid, as evidently evinces it to have been a work of art; it is about 300 yards from the road, lyes low, and may be easily discovered by the very high rushes that grow round it. ..."

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