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Westmorland (Appleby, Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside, Kirkby
Lonsdale)
There is evidence of life in the Kendal
area during the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. However, finds such as
a quorn, or grinding tool, excavated from the site of the
Westmorland Shopping Centre show that settlements were developing in
Kentdale by the time of the Iron Age (800-500 BC).
The Helm, a hump-backed hill near Oxenholme, was the site of an Iron
Age fort built by the best known of the Northern tribes, the
Brigantes. The Brigantes (from which we get the word brigand') were
said to be as wild and uncultivated as their native hills'. It is
suggested that this fort, known as Castlesteads, was built around
800 BC.
Watercrook, on a horseshoe bend of the River Kent outside Kendal, is
the site of the Romans' first fort in the area, built circa AD95.
The Roman name for the fort is still open to debate, with Concangium
and Medibogodo both contenders for the title.
Between the departure of the Romans and
the Norman invasion (AD 410-1066) Kendal and its environs were
subject to settlement and invasion by a number of tribes and races,
ranging from the Celts and Picts, the Angles and finally, the
Norsemen or Vikings.
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