Castlesteads hillfort

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Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Castlesteads hillfort is one of four hillforts the Albion Guide maps in Cumbria. Oxenholme Lake District Station is 1.4 km away to the north.

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