Hill of Skulls
Hill of Skulls (also Skellaw Hill - German "skull hill " ) is the name of a round burial mound ( English Round Barrow ) from the Bronze Age , which is located in the northwest of the village of Shap in Cumbria in England .
It may have been larger and more impressive, but today it is an approximately 1.5 m high stone-earth mound with a diameter of about 17.0 m. Its effect on the landscape is reduced by modern dry stone walls that are directly adjacent to the south and east. Human remains were found during an excavation in the 19th century.
The mound may have had significance for the prehistoric population of the area due to the fact that it is at the northern end of the Shap Stone Range, near the Shap Stone Circles . The menhirs of Aspers Field and the "Goggleby Stone" lie in a straight line with the hill , although it is unclear whether the hill is older than the stones. Both are said to be connected to the Lowther River, less than 1.6 km to the west, which flows past Eamont Bridge further to the north near King Arthur's Round Table , a Neolithic giant henge about 90.0 m in diameter thus connects a region shaped by cult places.
See also
literature
- Paul Ashbee: The bronze age round barrow in Britain: an introduction to the study of the funerary practice and culture of the British and Irish single-grave people of the second millennium BC , Phoenix house, 1960
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Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '57.2 " N , 2 ° 41' 13.3" W.