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the cairn, but not closely connected with any of the interments, 

 were some bones of an ox. 



Near to these cairns is another, known as Hollin Stump, 

 formerly a prominent object and landmark on the moorland 

 trackway between Great Asby and Crosby Ravensworth. It was 

 opened some years ago, and amongst the human bones, which 

 were placed in a cist made of slabs of sandstone, the skull of a 

 horse is said to have been found. 



A mound made entirely of earth, 24 ft. in diameter and 4 ft. 

 hig-h, proved to be quite barren of any burial remains ; it had 

 every appearance of having been a sepulchral mound, nor was the 

 nature of the material such as might be expected to have caused 

 the entire decay of bones. It was placed on the highest part 

 of Crosby Moor, close to a well-defined trackway, which can be 

 traced for more than a mile, and appears to have been a road 

 connecting the Roman station at Borrow Bridge, one mile south 

 of Tebay, and the station at Kirby Thore or Clifton. 



CLXXXII. A cairn at the head of Oddendale, called Seal Howe, 

 was also examined; some other cairns very much destroyed are 

 in the immediate vicinity, and about 300 yards to the west is a 

 double circle of stones. The place is traditionally spoken of as 

 the site of a great battle, and there are extensive mounds of 

 stone and earth thrown up as if for the purpose of entrench- 

 ment. Between the cairn and the circle there runs an ancient road 

 which, following the high ground as much as possible and avoiding 

 the valleys, was one of the main lines of route from Clifton to 

 Borrow Bridge. Along it the army of Charles II. marched on its 

 way south before the battle of Worcester, and the place where the 

 army halted for breakfast, at a copious spring on the moor (one of 

 the sources of the Lyvennet), is marked by a stone with an in- 

 scription recording the event. 



The position which this cairn occupies is very striking, and the 

 scene, as viewed on the afternoon when the mound was opened, was 

 one not easily to be forgotten by the explorers. As the sun lowered 

 towards the mountains in the west a fl.ood of golden light was 

 thrown upon the moorland up to our very feet, tinging the purple 

 of the heather with a richer hue, and adding a more than common 

 warmth to the red and grey lichen-covered boulders of Shap 



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