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cleared out in the centre and latterly to have
used as a receptacle for gathered stones.

Fort. Upper Galdenoch or Cruise Fell.
Occupying the highest point of Cruise Fell about
1/2 SE. [South East] of Upper Galdenoch farm is a stone built
fort. The site is an L shaped ridge of outcropping
rock with a shorter & parrallel rock, some 30' to 40' distant
from the end of the longer limb. A broad wall
of dry stone masonry has been built along the
crest of the rocks and over the intervening
hollows thus forming an oblong enclosure
The longest axis lies N and S. [North and South] and the highest
part of the rock is the short limb of the L at
the N [North] end. On the E and S. [East and South] the rock rises
to a height of 20' to 30' above the surrounding
moorland and towards the E. [East] the escarpment is steep.
On the W. [West] above the lowest part of the interior
it has a height of 8' or 10'. The total length overall is about 143' and the breadth across the centre 73'. The fort appears
to have been divided into two main enclosures
by the construction of a circular citadel
on the highest part of the rock with an
interior diameter of about 30'. The wall
which surrounds this is reduced to a mass
of debris 16' broad in places and seems to have con:
:tained a circular chamber in its thickness
on the S. [South] side. The wall which forms

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