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***SWAAG_ID***	971
Date Entered	07/01/2017
Updated on	07/01/2017
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Geological Record
Record Type	Geological HER
Site Access	Public Access Land
Record Date	11/08/2007
Location	Bowes Moor. Deepdale Beck upstream from Pennine Way footbridge at Levy Pool.
Civil Parish	Bowes
Brit. National Grid	NY 968 154
Altitude	305m
Geology	Glacial drift with erratic boulders exposed at intervals in the bed of Deepdale Beck. Many of the erratic booulders are of Shap Granite. Others are slabs of reddened Carboniferous Limestone or of Brockram which originate from the Vale of Eden. The Brockram is an interesting flash flood conglomerate, of Permo-Triassic Age, with angular clasts of carboniferous limestone of local exposure in the Vale of Eden. The Brockram erratics seen in the bed of the stream are moss covered but the angular clasts of limestone set in a red sandstone matrix can be discerned by close examination. No erratics other than those of local origine are present in the bed of Deepdale Beck upstream of the Shap Granite Boulder at NY96256 15183.
Record Name	Glacial erratic boulders located in the bed of Deepdale Beck upstream of Levy Pool
Record Description	This is a photographic record of a number of interesting glacial erratic boulders located at Levy Pool House and in the bed of Deepdale Beck upstream from the Footbridge crossing of the Pennine Way at Levy Pool. Each of the erratic boulders recorded below has been photographed during two separate visits, the first visit being in August 2007, the second visit on 4th January 2017.
Dimensions	See individual photo captions
Additional Notes	This is the first of a series of Database Records of the landscape and very extensive Bronze Age settlement remains centred on Ravock, a remote and seldom visited area of high moorland and on the Upper Reaches of Deepdale Beck on Bowes Moor, North of the A66 Road. For details of the origins of the erratic boulders from Permo-Triassic Rock Strata of the Vale of Eden and the Pennine Escarpment including the Brockram Conglomerate and Penrith Sandstone, see I.C. Burgess and A.J. Wadge, 1974 'The Geology of the Cross Fell area.' Institute of Geological Sciences. HMSO 75p. net
Image 1 ID	7108 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description	Pennine Way track passes Levy Pool House.Very large boulder of as yet inidentified volcanic rock, Borroewdale Series perhaps, in foreground.
Image 2 ID	7109 Click image to enlarge
Image 2 Description	The same boulder and view westward up Deepdale.
Image 3 ID	7110 Click image to enlarge
Image 3 Description	Deepdale Beck upstream from the Pennine Way footbridge.
Image 4 ID	7111 Click image to enlarge
Image 4 Description	Earthfast boulder of Shap Granite, one of two, in pasture close to Levy Pool House
Image 5 ID	7113 Click image to enlarge
Image 5 Description	Earthfast boulder of Shap Granite, second of two, in pasture close to Levy Pool House
Image 6 ID	7114 Click image to enlarge
Image 6 Description	Moss covered slab of Permo-triassic rock in Deepdale Beck. Probably Brockram.
Image 7 ID	7115 Click image to enlarge
Image 7 Description	Small boulder of waterworn limestone in Beck. Local origin.
Image 8 ID	7116 Click image to enlarge
Image 8 Description	Small Shap erratic in the Beck.
Image 9 ID	7117 Click image to enlarge
Image 9 Description	Small Shap erratic in the Beck.
Image 10 ID	7120 Click image to enlarge
Image 10 Description	Large boulder of Shap Granite in soth bank of Deepdale Beck
Image 11 ID	7121 Click image to enlarge
Image 11 Description	Deepdale Beck,small slab of Brockram, moss covered.
Image 12 ID	7122 Click image to enlarge
Image 12 Description	Detail of last
Image 13 ID	7124 Click image to enlarge
Image 13 Description	Small cliff with black algal colonies, lichen and mosses
Image 14 ID	7127 Click image to enlarge
Image 14 Description	Detail of the algae and mosses
Image 15 ID	7131 Click image to enlarge
Image 15 Description	View upstream towards Ravock.
Image 16 ID	7130 Click image to enlarge
Image 16 Description	Shap erratic at limit of the enclosed pastures
Image 17 ID	7123 Click image to enlarge
Image 17 Description	Small Shap erratic in the beck at NY96256 15183. Note. NO erratics other than of local origin upstream of this boulder.