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Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1155775
SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie F,S,A,

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 994
 Date Entered 11/05/2017
 Updated on 06/06/2017
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Record Type Geological HER
 Site Access Private
 Record Date 05/04/2017
 Location Deepdale Beck. Upstream of Crag Bridge.
 Civil Parish Bowes
 Brit. National Grid NY 988 156
 Altitude 300m
 Geology Glacial Drift over the Great Limestone.
 Record Name Shap erratic boulders associated with a galcial drumlin actively eroded b Deepdale Beck
 Record Description At least ten Shap erratic boulders and one whinstone erratic located in the bed of Deepdale Beck and in walled pasture on and below a large glacial drumlin actively eroded by the Beck upstream of Crag Bridge.
 Dimensions See photos
 Additional Notes The Shap Granite boulders recorded here are on Private Land. No Public Access. Photographs of boulders representative of this group are seen below. The detailed GPS recording of the very many individual Shap Boulders on Stainmore and in Teesdale recognised previously during many years of fieldwork together with further targeted fieldwork currently in hand should confirm or revise the existing recorded southern and northern limits of their distribution. The southern limit of these boulders has been defined previously as on the northern side of the A66 road over Stainmore by A. Raistrick (Raistrick 1926, Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., Vol XX, Pl xx).
 Image 1 ID 7323         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description Crag Bridge from below.
 Image 2 ID 7324         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description Deepdale Beck upstream of Crag Bridge.
 Image 3 ID 7325         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description Deepdale Beck and view of the stream eroded drumlin.
 Image 4 ID 7326         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 5 ID 7327         Click image to enlarge
 Image 5 Description The eroded drumlin revegetated with Salix bushes
 Image 6 ID 7328         Click image to enlarge
 Image 6 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 7 ID 7329         Click image to enlarge
 Image 7 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 8 ID 7330         Click image to enlarge
 Image 8 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 9 ID 7331         Click image to enlarge
 Image 9 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 10 ID 7332         Click image to enlarge
 Image 10 Description Shap erratic boulder in Deepdale Beck close by the drumlin that has been eroded.
 Image 11 ID 7328         Click image to enlarge
 Image 11 Description Shap erratic boulder in beck close beneath the eroded drumlin
 Image 12 ID 7329         Click image to enlarge
 Image 12 Description Shap erratic boulder in beck close beneath the eroded drumlin
 Image 13 ID 7331         Click image to enlarge
 Image 13 Description Shap erratic boulder in beck close beneath the eroded drumlin
 Image 14 ID 7332         Click image to enlarge
 Image 14 Description Shap erratic boulder in beck close beneath the eroded drumlin
 Image 15 ID 7333         Click image to enlarge
 Image 15 Description Shap erratic boulder in beck close beneath the eroded drumlin
 Image 16 ID 7335         Click image to enlarge
 Image 16 Description Two Shap erratic boulders in clearance heap at top edge of the drumlin with one whinstone and others of local sandstone and limestone origin
 Image 17 ID 7336         Click image to enlarge
 Image 17 Description Detail of the larger of the two Shap boulders in this heap
 Image 18 ID 7337         Click image to enlarge
 Image 18 Description Large Shap erratic boulder deep set in pasture above the drumlin.
 Image 19 ID 7338         Click image to enlarge
 Image 19 Description Detail of last
 Image 20 ID 7339         Click image to enlarge
 Image 20 Description Shap boulder in pasture clearance at spring stream below the drumlin. This is the mosrt western of this cluster of Shap boulders on Deepdale Beck upstream of Crag Bridge.
 Image 21 ID 7340         Click image to enlarge
 Image 21 Description Clearance heap with local sandstone erratics, no Shap granites, upstream of the drumlin
 
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