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***SWAAG_ID***	941
Date Entered	11/08/2016
Updated on	11/08/2016
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Photographic Record
Record Type	Botanical HER
Site Access	Public Footpath
Record Date	09/08/2016
Location	Shunner Fell
Civil Parish	High Abbotside
Brit. National Grid	SD 848 973
Altitude	716m
Geology	Namurian (Arnsbergian) Sandstones and the Shunner Fell Marine Shales (SFMB)
Record Name	A walk to Shunner Fell from the ButtertubsSummit to photograph the high Fell Flora.
Record Description	See the photograph captions
Dimensions	See photos
Additional Notes	For more information on the current condition of the high fell flora on Shunner, see: Reference:http://www.natureinthedales.org.uk/species/plants/marsh-saxifrage/ydnpa-condition-assessment-monitoring-yellow-marsh-saxifrage-2009.pdf
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Image 1 Description	The High Abbotside Moorland Regeneration Project information Notice, fallen.
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Image 2 Description	High Moorland Landscapes are very colourful.
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Image 3 Description	View upslope of the boundary fence, note sharp contrast in the moorland vegetation: south side no sheep grazing since 1999, North side still sheep grazed.
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Image 4 Description	The boundary fence, view downslope LHS with sheep grazing. RHS No sheep since 1999 .
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Image 5 Description	Self seeded conifer. An unexpected pioneer of natural woodland regeneration perhaps.
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Image 6 Description	Degraded remnants of a moorland landscape once under 2-3m deep blanket peat.
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Image 7 Description	This peat remnant mound was once eroding fast. Now re-vegetated and secure.
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Image 8 Description	Distant remnants of a moorland landscape once under 2-3m deep blanket peat.
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Image 9 Description	Deer Grass (Trichophorum ) on stony moor.
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Image 10 Description	Detail of this handsome plant.
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Image 11 Description	Bog Asphodel. Nathecium ossifragum, poisonous to sheep.
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Image 12 Description	Wood horsetail on slope just below summit. Relict of past woodland at this elevation perhaps.
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Image 13 Description	View from the Shunner Fell summit cairn
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Image 14 Description	Distant view of Brikdale Tarn from the summit.
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Image 15 Description
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Image 16 Description	Botanising
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Image 17 Description	Distant view of Mallerstang Edge.
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Image 18 Description	Distant view of High Seat on Mallerstang Edge.
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Image 19 Description	Distant view of High Seat on Mallerstang Edge.
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Image 20 Description	Saxifraga hirculus in flower. RD Book 25.
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Image 21 Description	Saxifraga hirculus in flower. RD Book 25.
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Image 22 Description	View from the summit.
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Image 23 Description	Marsh cinquefoil. Potentilla palustris is dominant over some areas here.
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Image 24 Description	Marsh cinquefoil. Potentilla palustris
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Image 25 Description	Northern Bilberry.Vaccineum uliginosum, a rare plant of the highest moorland peat hags.
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Image 26 Description	Northern Bilberry.Vaccineum uliginosum, a rare plant of the highest moorland peat hags.