Cockburn's Pool, Carlisle

Earthen Vallum information board, Old Melrose

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The vallum was a ditch across the peninsula, protecting and marking out the boundary of the monastery here in medieval times. The board informs that the vallum has now filled in, but its original width has been identified.

Uploaded to Geograph by Jim Barton on 25 October 2017

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