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From the moment the glaciers of the last Ice Age disappeared, man has been leaving his mark on the landscape of the Lake District, from Langdale’s Neolithic ‘axe factory’ and the Roman forts to the castles and peel towers built to protect against the Scots, and the German copper and lead mines of the Elizabethan era. In place names too, settlers have left their calling cards – the names of the mountains, rivers and towns originated with the Celts, the Norsemen and the Anglo-Saxons. This chapter only skims the surface of Cumbria’s history; the best way to understand it is to go and see what’s left of it.