Great stuff. Get it posted on TMA - it's simple.

Interesting to note your bit about the axe trade routes - possibly one down Borrowdale, you say. The routes for axes throughout the Lakes could be many. The routes they took, I believe, were the ones used by the packhorses in more modern times. Ancient routes re-used throught the ages, until modrn times. Borrowdale, Great and Little Langdale, Duddon, Wasdale, Eskdale, Ennerdale, all routes to the coast via Stake Pass, Rossett Ghyll, Sty Head, Esk Hause, Black Sail, Blea Tarn, Ulpha Fell.

Interesting to note, Black Sail Pass, so it is said, was named because it was used by the valley inhabitants as a high place from which to spy the ships of the Vikings on their approach. If so, it has a long history.