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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Threepow Raise Cairnfield Alternative Name: Moordivock 14, 15 and 16; Moor Divock 14, 15 and 16Country: England County: Cumbria Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Penrith Nearest Village: Helton / Askham
Map Ref: NY4822221902
Latitude: 54.589643N Longitude: 2.802772W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Note: Because the exact locations of these cairns are not specified by Waistell Taylor, apart from saying they are 250 yards south of the Cockpit, and he appears to curtail his entries at this point in his paper to focus on other 'relics' on Moordivock, I have assumed - perhaps incorrectly - that his cairns Moordivock 14, 15 and 16 belong to the Threepow Raise Cairnfield, although this begins about 221m/750 feet south of the Cockpit Stone Circle.
In his 1885 paper "Prehistoric Remains on Moordivock", Waistell Taylor tells us (page 338), that "about 250 yards to the south of the Cockpit there are the remains of a group of three or four tumuli, standing 100 yards apart ...
Moordivock 14: "is a circular space raised about a foot above the surface and 27 feet in diameter; with a double circle of stones .... it has evidently never been opened";
Moordivock 15: "... similar to the last but of small size, only 15 feet in diameter; in the centre there is a large blue cobble boulder, which has been split; it is 3 feet long. There has been a digging near this stone";
Moordivock 16: "A grass-grown artificial mound, but without any large stones. There are two or three other elevations close by which seem artificial, and to represent grave mounds of about 15 feet in diameter".
A more extensive survey by Jamie Quartermaine is detailed in his 1991 paper "Askham Fell Survey Catalogue", which picks out a much wider cairnfield. Whilst I have yet to match the descriptions of his cairns with those of Waistell Taylor and Spence, I believe these may be his monuments 41, 42, 48 and 51. For a link to Quartermaine's survey, see our generic site page for Askham Fell.
In addition, Dr J E Spence carried out a survey, probably of this area (his diagram of the site roughly matches the area recorded by HE) to the south of the Cockpit, and produced a report An early settlement on Moor Divock, in which he interprets the features here as a combination of hut circles and tumuli, rather than a cairnfield.
Historic England records the site as List ID 1007356, "Four funerary cairns and a surrounding cairnfield on Threepow Raise", in which they identify the mounds as a cairnfield. Their entry reads: "The surrounding cairnfield includes 31 cairns and two stone banks. These cairns can be sub-divided into four groups; one group of two small cairns up to 0.2m high with maximum dimensions of 4.2m by 3.8m occupies the same slight rise between two areas of bog as the two funerary cairns described above. A second group of 19 cairns generally c.3m in diameter and up to 0.3m high, together with two stone banks, are scattered around the gently graded slopes of Threepow Raise. A third group of eight generally smaller cairns are located within a gully east of Elder Beck; and a fourth group of two small cairns are located west of Elder Beck."
The HE entry was compiled from the extensive survey by Jamie Quartermaine, which is detailed in his 1991 paper "Askham Fell Survey Catalogue", in which all the cairns are separately identified. See our generic site page Askham Fell for a link to Quartermaine's report).
Note: Further research is needed to determine the exact locations of Moordivock 14, 15 and 16. If anyone else can help with this, please post a comment to this site page. Thank you!
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