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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Yorkshire Dales"”.
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The Neolithic Settlement of the Yorkshire Dales
The Neolithic archaeology of the Yorkshire Dales is widely acknowledged, but poorly understood. The research presented in thesis is the first time that all the archaeological evidence has been quantified and synthesised to provide an informed view of settlement in the Yorkshire Dales for period …
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Late Quaternary vegetation history of Craven, Yorkshire Dales.
… from four sites in the Craven District of the Yorkshire Dales. The chosen sites fall along an east-west transect broadly following the line of the south Craven Fault. The rationale for site selection was not based on conventional palynological considerations of potential for rich core samples, …
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Understanding the later prehistoric field systems of the Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales National Park contains some of the UK’s most extensive and well-preserved prehistoric landscapes. Of particular interest are a number of coaxial field systems, which cover hundreds of hectares and exhibit significant time-depth, yet remain little studied and poorly understood in …
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The ecology and conservation of cave roosting bats in the Yorkshire Dales
The caves of the Yorkshire Dales National Park are potentially an important assemblage of underground bat sites, but prior to this study nothing was known about the ecology of cave use. Between 2002 and 2005,53 cave entrances were logged for swarming activity using automated echolocation call …
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The Stocksman's Shadow: An Ethnography of Ethics and Symbolism in the Yorkshire Dales
… This dissertation is about hill farming in the Yorkshire Dales (shorthand, the Dales). It is, therefore, about those who most certainly do know their sheep. The Dales is an upland region of The Pennine Mountains in Northern England. A region characterised by deep-sloping river valleys and high- …
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Walking through time: a window onto the prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales through multi-method, non-standard survey approaches
… time: a window onto the prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales through multi-method, non-standard survey approaches Keywords: Yorkshire Dales, prehistory, veneration, natural places, geophysical survey, walkover survey, field-system, clearance, land tenure The large-scale field-systems, …
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Studies in the holocene vegetation history of Wensleydale
… one valley bog in the Wensleydale area of the Yorkshire Dales. Local pollen assemblage zones have been defined for each site using numerical methods, and these have been correlated to give regional pollen assemblage zones. A computer program has been developed to calculate and plot the …
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From Bradford Moor to Silver Dale. The life, work, and legacy of W. Riley, 1866-1961
… internationally known as a popular and prolific Yorkshire author. Before becoming a famous writer, he was Managing Director of the successful Bradford Optical Lantern Company, Riley Brothers and was also, for 75 years, a Methodist local preacher and an important layman within northern Methodism. …
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Investigation of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of iNOS gene expression in infection of natural populations of Apodemus sylvaticus with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii
… were made from the Malham Tarn region of the Yorkshire Dales in the UK. These were tested for T.gondii infection using PCR based detection and each collection showed a significant prevalence ranging between 20 -40% of infected animals. This provided useful sample sets for investigating the …
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Pervasive Media and Eudaimonia: Transdisciplinary Research by Practice
… UK and Canada), Hunter Gatherer (2010-11, Yorkshire Dales, UK), Living Voices (2011-13 Wiltshire, UK). Through the Experimental Walks project, a Colour Grid methodology developed, that invites sensory noticing and notation, subsequently produced as iPhone app Hunter Gatherer (2011). This …
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The history of Carlton in Coverdale, 1086-1910
… the history of a village and township in the Yorkshire Dales. At first sight Carlton in Coverdale appeared to be poorly documented, and in the past it has been written off as uninteresting; but a rich and varied history is here brought to light. The study takes a long view, from the first …
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Dissolved organic carbon and colour dynamics in drained and restored blanket peat
… within the Oughtershaw Beck catchment in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK. The installation of drainage ditches was found to reduce both the carbon storage potential of the peat and the quality of upland catchment waters. Drainage lowered the depth of the water table across the peat by an …