Thank you Caroline and Ely District Society for sharing a bit of history from the place i spent many hours playing as a child in the 70`s, it was very informative and well researched. Apologies if what im about to share sounds dismissive to your work its not i assure you, i just want to share/ add a few things that everyone who visits this site and makes a video or has a theory about it for some reason misses/fails to mention or more than likely are not aware of due to it being local knowledge. The woodland behind the wall next to St Patrick's has a quarry and some tantalising clues to the stone graves and which time period they date to. if you are visiting the site again to see the hogback stone then i will gladly show you what is there and Explain what i saw in the 1970`s and where . The Chapple you see now is what was reconstructed/ Re interpreted in the late 1800`s by a vicar with a passion for archology he also left some Latin inscriptions/verse on the wall path beneath the Chapple that's worth investigation. The thing as it is today does not make sense, the arch would of had matching pillars, the pillars that are there serve no structural use being arse about face, the slate infills in the wall don't make sense, neither does William Daneill print with the wall around the graves and the fort/stockade on the barrows in the foreground and the perspective/scale of the hills seen across the bay... it would seem that he completed and colourised his sketches from his tour when he was back in London 5 years later so his work in this presentation may not be a reliable or accurate account of what stood when he visited sorry xx, ive know of this place as the barrows/Heysham Head since childhood but i think the reference to barrow rd/st etc is because Barrow is situated on the other side of the bay as is Ullswater and there is an Ullswater road locally. thank you again for sharing this little bit of the country. If anyone does visit the site The royal oak in the village has fine food, refreshment and worthy of a pit stop.
Thank you Caroline and Ely District Society for sharing a bit of history from the place i spent many hours playing as a child in the 70`s, it was very informative and well researched. Apologies if what im about to share sounds dismissive to your work its not i assure you, i just want to share/ add a few things that everyone who visits this site and makes a video or has a theory about it for some reason misses/fails to mention or more than likely are not aware of due to it being local knowledge. The woodland behind the wall next to St Patrick's has a quarry and some tantalising clues to the stone graves and which time period they date to. if you are visiting the site again to see the hogback stone then i will gladly show you what is there and Explain what i saw in the 1970`s and where . The Chapple you see now is what was reconstructed/ Re interpreted in the late 1800`s by a vicar with a passion for archology he also left some Latin inscriptions/verse on the wall path beneath the Chapple that's worth investigation. The thing as it is today does not make sense, the arch would of had matching pillars, the pillars that are there serve no structural use being arse about face, the slate infills in the wall don't make sense, neither does William Daneill print with the wall around the graves and the fort/stockade on the barrows in the foreground and the perspective/scale of the hills seen across the bay... it would seem that he completed and colourised his sketches from his tour when he was back in London 5 years later so his work in this presentation may not be a reliable or accurate account of what stood when he visited sorry xx, ive know of this place as the barrows/Heysham Head since childhood but i think the reference to barrow rd/st etc is because Barrow is situated on the other side of the bay as is Ullswater and there is an Ullswater road locally. thank you again for sharing this little bit of the country. If anyone does visit the site The royal oak in the village has fine food, refreshment and worthy of a pit stop.