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legend of the skulls is as follows : — These skulls formerly occupied 

 a niche in Calgarth Hall, from which all attempts to dispossess them 

 were found futile. They are said to have been buried, burned, 

 reduced to powder, dispersed by the wind, sunk in the well, and 

 thrown into the lake several times, all to no purpose. They 

 invariably appeared again in their favourite niche, till at last they 

 were walled up in it, and there they remain. 



At various places on the range of Armboth Fell, and especially 

 on the top of Cockrigg Bank adjoining, are to be seen rude 

 structures, built of stone, in the form of a parallelogram. The 

 side walls are generally nine or ten yards in length, those across 

 the end three-and-a-half or four yards. There is an aperture in 

 the side wall of each which seems to have been the entrance. The 

 height of the walls varies from two or three feet, some of the 

 enclosed spaces having two or three divisions inside. They have 

 been visited by several people, some of whom have given the 

 opinion that they were simply places to store peat ; others suppose 

 that they were constructed for sheepfolds. Knowing all about 

 cutting and storing peat on the fell, I am certain, from the situ- 

 ations in which we find them, that they cannot have been of any 

 use to those who procured peats from the fell ; and anyone who 

 has had experience among sheep, must know them to be utterly 

 useless as sheepfolds. It is an idea of those who have lately 

 visited these ancient remains, that they have probably at one time 

 been used as human habitations, and as far as I am able to 

 judge there has been, up to the present time, no argument brought 

 forward to disprove this view of the matter. 



A rock, called Castle Crag, is situate near Shoulthwaite Gill, 

 and not far distant from Raven Crag. There is every reason to 

 believe that this situation has at one time been used as a fortress. 

 The front of the rock, which is almost perpendicular, is of con- 

 siderable height, and faces the valley below. Such is the formation 

 of the top of the rock and the ground adjoining that a considerable 

 space has at one time been enclosed by two earthworks, one some 

 distance in front of the other. This place is sufficiently large to 

 have held a considerable body of men, who at the time it was in 



