Location : Appleby
Map - Ordnance Survey - NY 720188
Brackenber Moor has been occupied since at least the Bronze Age, and a number of burial monuments survive from this period. A number of possible prehistoric settlement sites exist in the area, which could potentially date to the Iron Age or Romano-British periods.
The Druidical Judgement Seat is a D-shaped enclosure, comprising an outer bank and inner ditch, with a single entrance on the northwest side.
Similar sites in Cumbria are usually interpreted as Iron Age or Romano-British farmsteads. However, no archaeological features are visible within the enclosure, and no archaeological evidence is available with which to date the site.
North Pennines Archaeology Ltd will be excavating there (some small trenches) this summer(2008), which will be open to the public.
Aerial photo by Simon Ledingham.
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