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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Tree Site ID | 0 |
| Associated Site SWAAG ID | 0 |
| 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
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| 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 |
| Image 11 Description | Deepdale Beck,small slab of Brockram, moss covered. |  |
| Image 12 ID | 7122 |
| Image 12 Description | Detail of last |  |
| Image 13 ID | 7124 |
| Image 13 Description | Small cliff with black algal colonies, lichen and mosses |  |
| Image 14 ID | 7127 |
| Image 14 Description | Detail of the algae and mosses |  |
| Image 15 ID | 7131 |
| Image 15 Description | View upstream towards Ravock. |  |
| Image 16 ID | 7130 |
| Image 16 Description | Shap erratic at limit of the enclosed pastures |  |
| Image 17 ID | 7123 |
| Image 17 Description | Small Shap erratic in the beck at NY96256 15183. Note. NO erratics other than of local origin upstream of this boulder. |  |
