Dam, Glencoyne Farm, Patterdale, Ullswater

Record ID:  28448 / MNA123055
Record type:  Building
Protected Status: World Heritage Site
NT Property:  Ullswater; North
Civil Parish:  Matterdale; Eden; Cumbria
Grid Reference:  NY 369 187
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Summary

Dam

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Most Recent Monitoring

None Recorded

Monument Types

  • DAM (Late 19th C - 1867 AD to 1900 AD)

Description

A pair of rubble-built parallel linear walls, set 1.2m apart, extend to a length of 32m across the width of the Glencoyne Beck and stand to a maximum height of 2m. The walls have been erected with a significant batter, giving them a triangular cross-section, and a small stone-arched aperture was noted at the northern end, through which water still flowed. The centre of the structure has collapsed and to the west, a channel cut into the ground has largely silted up. The feature may have been used to wash sheep prior to the widespread introduction of sheep dipping.

(Oxford Archaeolgy North 2018)

References

  • --- SNA67809 - Unpublished document: Jamie Quartermaine. 2018. Glencoyne Farm, Ullswater, Cumbria: Historic Landscape Survey.

  • --- SZI50407 - Document: Chris Whitfield. 1995. Glencoyne Farm, Ullswater. Dam.

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Associated Events

  • ENA1621 - Field Survey, Rapid walk over survey, Glencoyne Park Farm, Ullswater, 1995

Associated Finds

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Related Records

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