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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 844 |
| Date Entered | 01/01/2015 |
| Updated on | 19/03/2015 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Tree Site Record |
| Record Type | Botanical HER |
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| Site Access | Army Range |
| Record Date | 30/12/2014 |
| Location | Dalton Gill upstream from the farm access road atNZ10320707 |
| Civil Parish | Gayles |
| Brit. National Grid | NZ 1020 0700 |
| Altitude | 270m |
| Geology | Stream cut ravine through glacial drift over strata below the Underset Limestone. |
| Record Name | Dalton Beck Upper Reach. Relict ash wood with aspen grove |
| Record Description | Species rich stream side ash woodland with small grove of aspen trees, sallows, holly, old hazel coppice and ancient rowan with isolated stunted oak(Qu. robur), hawthorn and crab apple on a relict hedge bank lost within the woodland which was once pasture, possibly related to Crumma or the abandoned settlement of Hornbriggs. |
| Dimensions | See photos. |
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| Tree Site ID | 0 |
| Associated Site SWAAG ID | 0 |
| Additional Notes | This fragment of woodland which survives within the comparative shelter of the steep sided ravine at the upper reach of Dalton Gill is of considerable landscape interest, being of native tree species which have from time immemorial been managed as coppice. The small copse of aspens is of particular interest. This species, one of the colonising tundra tree species at the end of the last Glacial, reproduces from swarms of suckers (ramets) which spring from the roots of two or three generations of older trees to form characteristic cloned copses capable of living indefinitely. Individual trees grow rapidly and would be a very valuable and attractive commercial timber tree since as the tree regenerates from root suckers, no replanting would be necessary following felling. |
| Image 1 ID | 5986 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | Dalton Beck. The upper reaches and one of two deserted farm steadings at Hornbriggs. |  |
| Image 2 ID | 5987 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | One of the two deserted farm steadings at Hornbriggs. |  |
| Image 3 ID | 5988 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | One of two deserted farm steadings at Hornbriggs. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 6019 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | The two deserted steadings at Hornbriggs. Not yet visited. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 5990 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | Ash and birch trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 6 ID | 5991 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 6 Description | Ash trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 7 ID | 5992 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 7 Description | Ash trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 8 ID | 5993 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 8 Description | Ash trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 9 ID | 5994 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 9 Description | Ash trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 10 ID | 5995 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 10 Description | Ash trees at the top edge of the ravine |  |
| Image 11 ID | 5996 |
| Image 11 Description | Two stunted and hollowing oak (Qu. robur) trees on relict field hedge bank. |  |
| Image 12 ID | 5998 |
| Image 12 Description | Fallen leaf of Qu. robur, the species of oak native to the NE Pennine fringe. |  |
| Image 13 ID | 6016 |
| Image 13 Description | The same hedge bank with hawthorn and stunted oak trees from below |  |
| Image 14 ID | 6017 |
| Image 14 Description | Hawthorn and crab apple on the same hedge bank |  |
| Image 15 ID | 6018 |
| Image 15 Description | Old hollowed crab apple on the same hedge bank |  |
| Image 16 ID | 6001 |
| Image 16 Description | Ash coppice by the stream. |  |
| Image 17 ID | 6002 |
| Image 17 Description | Ash on ruined field wall by stream. |  |
| Image 18 ID | 6003 |
| Image 18 Description | Ash with self rooting sallows on this wall. |  |
| Image 19 ID | 6004 |
| Image 19 Description | Very large Rowan on the same wall |  |
| Image 20 ID | 6005 |
| Image 20 Description | Very large Rowan with hazel forming a tangle on the same wall |  |
| Image 21 ID | 6006 |
| Image 21 Description | Old hazel coppice |  |
| Image 22 ID | 6007 |
| Image 22 Description | Large sallow washed out by the last flood. |  |
| Image 23 ID | 6008 |
| Image 23 Description | Large coppiced downy birch by the stream, growing through gorse |  |
| Image 24 ID | 6009 |
| Image 24 Description | Large coppiced downy birch by the stream |  |
| Image 25 ID | 6010 |
| Image 25 Description | This fine birch has fallen and re rooted to live again |  |
| Image 26 ID | 6011 |
| Image 26 Description | This fine birch has fallen and re rooted to live again |  |
| Image 27 ID | 6012 |
| Image 27 Description | Detail to show the fallen stems of this birch which have re rooted to live again |  |
| Image 28 ID | 6015 |
| Image 28 Description | Aspens with downy birch by the stream. |  |
| Image 29 ID | 6014 |
| Image 29 Description | Aspen grove, the oldest tree. |  |
| Image 30 ID | 6013 |
| Image 30 Description | Aspen Grove. group of young ramets which spring from an older tree. |  |
