andyfellwalker
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Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 15:09
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Does anybody know anything about the object marked on OS Explorer OL7 Map as Hall Hill near Troutbeck Park approx GR412056. It has the shape of a large barrow 20 feet high, there is a photo here http://www.andyfellwalker.com/Egg/Fareastern/Trout_Beck_and_The_Tongue/026_Hall_Hill_curious_object.htm
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StoneLifter
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 16:32
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Well, it's 'objects', as there's a smaller, round, mound in the foreground. Any close-ups?
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andyfellwalker
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 17:16
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I have to say I wasn't looking for other objects at the time so didn't take much notice. A couple of photos from a different angle you can see the smaller object (which I assumed to be natural) on the right hand side of Hall Hill. The other photos might give a better scale of the size of Hall Hill.
http://www.andyfellwalker.com/Egg/Fareastern/Trout_Beck_and_The_Tongue/022_Hall_Hill_curious_object.htm
http://www.andyfellwalker.com/Egg/Fareastern/Trout_Beck_and_The_Tongue/020_Which_way_to_The_Tongue.htm
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StoneLifter
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 17:55
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Have a look at this webpage, and the associated ones - http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/mpp/mcd/sub/lb1.htm . If I pontificate, just from these photographs, the thread will mutate into a vitriolic flame spat; so I won't. But that little mound - and it could just be a pile of field clearance boulders - lends strong support to the hypothesis that Hall Hill is a Neolithic L. B.
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 19:11
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Howdo Andy
Your mounds look awfully like a glacial feature. There's also been quarrying in that area.
There are a couple of prehistoric bits and bobs in the area
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4680
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/7218
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fitzcoraldo
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this made me smile
http://www.andyfellwalker.com/gifs/Sheepdog.jpg
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andyfellwalker
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 19:54
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I would agree with glacial feature if it was with a group of drumlins but it isn't at the head of a valley and is at the point of a tongue.
I passed the cairns in Troutbeck Park later in the day
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StoneLifter
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 21:42
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It's not glacial - the Cumbria County Archaeologist is named Richard Newman and is in Kendal.
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stubob
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 21:46
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Hey up,
If it is a glacial feature...Could it be a drumlin or is it too small?
nice one.
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The Eternal
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Re: Hall Hill, Troutbeck Park
Feb 25, 2007, 22:03
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Andyfellwalker,
I'm certain its galcial, having been there, and having seen many similar features in my mountaineering experience in the Lakes. There are burial cairns on the northern and of Troutbaeck Tongue, photos of which I have added to this site, and which Fitz has kindly responded to you with the links.
By the way, are you the Andyfellwalker of the website fame? I suspect so, as you were on Troutbeck Park yesterday. If so, we once corresponded by e-mail, about the unusual cloud conditions we experienced - you were on Grisedale Pike, and I was across the valley on the Whinlatter fells.
If it is you, your 17th Feb walk took you to Selside Pike, and you commented about the summit cairn, and the fact that there are no stones around, so they must have been transported there. It is listed as a Bronze Age burial cairn, and I added it to this site a while back. A similar Bronze Age burial cairn existes on High Raise to the north of High Street, and on its eastern ridge on Low Raise, also on this site. You will know of them.
Welcome to TMA - it's a great database for esoteric ancient sites in Cumbria and elsewhere, and makes a day on the hills more interesting - see the Langdale rock art, and the axe factory sites.
All the best,
TE.
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