INTRODUCTION. in the Following Pages Will Be Found the Result of A
XVI.—The Ancient Settlements, Cemeteries, and Earthworks of Furness. By H. SWAINSON COWPEB., Esq., F.8.A. Read December 12th, 1889. INTRODUCTION. IN the following pages will be found the result of a somewhat careful examination of all the existing ancient sites in the district of Furness, in North Lancashire. The remains themselves are very varied in character, ranging from the rude enclosure of dry-built masonry to the burh of the Anglo-Saxon lord. The accompanying illustrations represent all the most important examples of these; and, as far as I am aware, every site (excepting some groups of cairns, which on parts of the fells are innumerable) will be found described with some detail in the text. For the piirpose of this enquiry, a personal examination has been made of every site in the district. Besides this, I have consulted every work that contains men- tion, however slight, of the subject.0 For the most part, these notices are neither a The following are the most important notices on the subject, with a brief statement of the character of each, and an abbreviation used in the text of this paper for reference: 1. The Antiquities of Furness: by Thomas West, Close's edition (Ulverston, 1805), contains plans of Aldingham Moat, and the TJrswick stone walls (pp. 391 and 397). W.I1. 2. Archaeologia, xxxi. 448-453, contains a paper by C. M. Jopling, "on the subject of Remains ascribed to the era of the Druids in Furness, north of Lancashire." Plans are given of Urswick stone walls, enclosures at Appleby Slack, Birkrigg, a circle on Kirkby Moor, and also a map, all of which are more or less useless.
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