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XV.—Notes on Discoveries in Ehenside Tarn, Cumberland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In “The Whitehaven Herald” of the 19th of November, 1870, there appeared a communication entitled “Remains of Ancient British Dwellings at Ehenside, near Egremont,” signed by the Rev. J. W. Kenworthy, a paper of striking interest to all who concern themselves with the slowly increasing materials for a better knowledge of the ante-historic state of man in these islands.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1874

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page 280 note a This “canoe” may, however, have been only one of Sir E. Brisco's beams.

page 284 note a Diligent search was made all over the surface of the now dry lake bottom, along the shores, and also over adjoining potato and stubble fields, for flakes or chips, but entirely without success. No flint occnrred at all.

page 285 note a The upper part of a similar quern was lately found on the beach at Seacote, where a little stream cuts off the southerly end of St. Bees shore cliff. It is confidently stated that these querns have been actually it domestic use within living memory in some of the deep valley recesses of this part of Cumberland.

page 288 note a See Jahrbücher des Vereins für Meklenburgische GescMchte, 1844, p. 364, where the club is engraved.Google Scholar

page 290 note a It should however be stated that a wooden three-pronged fork, believed to have been used as a pitchfork, though at a much more recent period than the specimens underconsideration, has been obtained at Hoylake, in Cheshire, and is in the possession of Mr. Charles Potter of Liverpool.