Great Mell Fell

Nearest town:
Penrith (13km ENE)
OS reference:
NY396253
OS sheet:
90
Latitude:
54° 37' 8.41 N
Longitude:
2° 56' 7.71 W
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Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

Great and Little Mell Fells, from the slopes of Blease Fell.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.10.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 30, 2011
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by thesweetcheat

Great Mell Fell (centre, middle-distance) from Hallsfell Top, the summit of Blencathra. Doddick Fell and Scales Fell in the foreground.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.10.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 30, 2011
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

24/12/06. A temperature inversion. Looking NE to Great Mell Fell from Dove Crag. Christmas came a day early. The shadow of Mr. The Eternal belies his 5’ 8.5” stature. And, yes, I am claiming the half-inch.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal Dec 24, 2006
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

06/05/06. Great Mell Fell Bronze Age barrow looking SSE. Gowbarrow Fell is in the foreground, the High Street Roman road is on the partially cloud obscured ridge in the background.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal May 18, 2006
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

06/05/06. Great Mell Fell Bronze Age barrow looking S, the distant hills obscured by brewing cloud.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal May 18, 2006
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

06/05/06. Great Mell Fell Bronze Age barrow looking NW to Blencathra.

Image credit: The Eternal
The Eternal
The Eternal May 18, 2006
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

10/02/06. Great Mell Fell from the eastern slopes of Souther Fell, looking SE. The ridge of High Street Roman road is in the background.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Feb 10, 2006
Image of Great Mell Fell (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by The Eternal

Great Mell Fell Bronze Age bowl barrow from Randerside on the slopes of Great Dodd. View looking NE.
The barrow is just below, and to the W of the summit of Great Mell Fell.
Great Mell Fell is a prominent, wedge-shaped hill to the W of the N end of Ullswater, which attracts few, apart from obsessive peak-baggers, and the odd, misty-eyed loner with an antiquarian bias.

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The Eternal
The Eternal Oct 16, 2005

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Great Mell Fell

The Eternal
The Eternal May 18, 2006

Visited on 06/05/06. It was a warm spring day, with a thunderstorm threatening, but not arriving. Hardly anyone visits this rather uninspiring fell, one of the dullest in the Lakes, just a bit of a grassy wedge. However, on a fresh day, with cloud shadows chasing across the landscape, the views would be worth it without the barrow.
The barrow’s nowt to write home about, but if you did it’d go summthing like this: “Saw a Bronze age barrow today. Quite a small barrow, grassy, with a modern cairn on top.” It’s set on the western edge of the fell, where the ground falls steeply away. To the west the bog of Flaska stretches away to Castlerigg stone circle, north north west to Carrock Fell hillfort, east to The Cockpit and south to the Beckstones rock art. It’s probably 15 to 20 feet in diameter and a few feet high.
An easy ascent, with time to spend on top if you’ve got a spare hour.

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