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knowledge of the place, the Rev. James Simpson, LL.D., has been 

 enabled to reconstruct it in a valuable paper on ' The Antiquities of 

 Shap\' In the same parish, at Gunnerkeld, is a double circle of 

 granite boulders still remaining almost entire, and other similar 

 structures are to be seen in the neighbourhood. 



I have oi^ened several barrows and cairns in the county, some of 

 which presented features of marked interest and novelty, though on 

 the whole they show an identity of ancient burial usages with those 

 in other parts of Britain. 



Parish of Kirby Stephen. Ord. Ma}), xcvii. n.w. 



Upon Ashfell, near Kirby Stephen, are a few sepulchral mounds, 

 three of which had remained untouched up to the period of my 

 examination of them. 



CLXV. The first, of the bowl-shaped form, was 55 ft. in 

 diameter, 5 ft. high, and was composed of clayey soil. The only 

 interment discovered was 17 ft. east-south-east of the centre, where 

 about 2 ft. above the natural surface was a deposit of the burnt 

 bones of an adult placed in a round heap 1 ft. in diameter. No 

 flint chippings or potsherds were met with in the mound. 



CLXVI. The second barrow was situated about a mile to the 

 south of the last and, together with the two next described, was 

 placed on the highest part of the ridge of limestone which there 

 overhangs Ravenstonedale. It was 31 ft. in diameter^ 4 ft. high, 

 and was made of limestone-rubble and soil. At the centre and 

 placed upon the natural surface was a rudely-formed cist of lime- 

 stone slabs, which however contained nothing. The interment had 

 without any doubt been one of an unburnt body, which had gone 

 entirely to decay in consequence of the free admission of air and 

 other destructive agencies through the loose materials composing 

 the mound. 



CLXVII. The third barrow was about 300 yards further along 

 the ridge in an eastern direction from the last. It was 30 ft. in 

 diameter, 4 ft. high, and composed of stones and earth. At the 

 centre was a grave cut into the limestone rock, which at that 

 particular point rose somewhat above the general level of the 



Piinted in the Carlisle volume of the Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute. 



