Though the elizabethan historian and antiquarian william camden who travelled the whole country before publishing britannia his 1586 topographical survey of britain notes the strange ruins of an old castle close to where the crowdundle beck.
Hanging walls of mark anthony.
Description the monument includes the remains of a series of medieval lynchets and a building platform situated on a hillock next to ran beck.
The hanging walls of mark anthony medieval lynchets and building platform.
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This record has been generated from an old county number ocn scheduling record.
Due to their prominent position they are a significant landmark in the local landscape and will contain archaeological deposits relating to their construction use and abandonment.
I would guess that the ruined castle was the remains of a medieval tower house attributed to the romans and more specifically mark anthony following the loss of any folk memory regarding its last occupants.
The hanging walls of mark anthony lynchets and building platform are reasonably well preserved and provide insight into medieval farming practice.
The walls may have quite literally been hanging due to river erosion of the bank upon which they stood.
Photos maps personal memories and local books of hanging walls of mark anthony francis frith the uk s leading publisher of local photographs since 1860.
The hanging walls of mark anthony are three low artificial cultivation terraces of no great interest and without explanation of the name.
Old map os county series cmd 51 14 county series maps of great britain scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile published by the ordnance survey southampton hampshire from about 1863 to 1948.
This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 29 march 2016.
One source gives a date of 1600bc.
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The track of a roman road runs up the hill slope at this point heading north and this may have influenced the name.
Hanging walls of mark anthony.
Description one of the cultivation terraces can be seen as a pale green strip just below the russet hawthorns.
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Placename hanging walls of mark anthony.
The hanging walls of mark anthony are an area of mediƦval lynchets cultivation terraces and a building platform found on the hillside above kirkland and blencarn in eastern cumberland on the lower slopes of cross fell the hanging walls are today a scheduled ancient monument.
Hanging walls of mark anthony.