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• County Armagh
  ...posit of pale-coloured clays with lignites, which are probably of Pliocene age, and indicate a reduction of the area of the lake in still later times. Be ...nes or Norse in one out their military adventures hereabouts in an earlier age.
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• Ayrshire
  ...ite and basalt trending in a north-west direction and probably of Tertiary age. *[[Old Cumnock]]
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• Buteshire
  ...ykes as well as sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks ranging in widely in age.<ref name=McK300>McKirdy ''et al.'' (2007) pp. 297- 301</ref> Visiting in 1 ....Retrieved 4 February 2011.</ref><ref name=Cow27>Cowie, Trevor "The Bronze Age" in Omand (2006) pp. 27-30</ref>
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• Scarborough
  |picture caption=Scarborough Old Harbour The town's name appears to come from Old Norse and in the sagas it appears twice, named ''Skarðaborg''. The local b
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• Caithness
  |picture=Latheron, the old church - geograph.org.uk - 596902.jpg |picture caption=Latheron Old Church, Caithness
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• Cambridgeshire
  ...he [[Great Ouse]] (at the [[Huntingdonshire]] border) to the sea are the [[Old Bedford River]] and [[New Bedford River]], two great, tidal drainage channe The one remaining place which gives a sense of the old landscape is [[Wicken Fen]], a nature reserve between [[Wicken, Cambridgesh
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• Cumberland
  [[File:Castlerigg.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Castlerigg stone circle]] ...es''', but the oldest signs on the landscape are far older; the Castlerigg stone circle on the hill above [[Keswick]] has been dated to the Neolithic or ear
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• Dorset
  ...ong the Jurassic Coast the cliffs have revealed countless fossils from the age of the dinosaurs. ...used for facing and beautifying the great buildings of the land: Portland Stone is quarried on the [[Isle of Portland]], which has for centuries been wholl
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• Dumfriesshire
  Neolithic and Bronze Age remains in Dumfriesshire include stone circles such as those at [[Dunscore]] and [[Eskdalemuir]]), tumuli and cair [[File:Twelve Apostles Stone Circle - geograph.org.uk - 385556.jpg|right|thumb|The Twelve Apostles]]
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• Essex
  ...Benfleet]] and others out to [[Southend-on-Sea]], with [[Billericay]], an old town grown large, off to the north of the group. [[Basildon]] and [[Harlow] Stone quarries arer not found in Essex, but brick-making has abounded since early
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• Boa Island
  ...r07.pdf | accessdate=2007-12-03}}</ref> The [[Lustymore Island|Lustymore]] stone figure was moved here in 1939 from the nearby island of that name. The oldest stone monument on the island is a denuded cairn at Inishkeeragh Bridge near the s
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• Hertfordshire
  ...art. The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays. ...he rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertford is derived from the Old English ''heort ford,'' literally meaning "hart ford", referring to a ford
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• Inverness-shire
  ...ands on the river Arkaig near the point where it issues from the lake. The old castle was burnt down by the duke of Cumberland, but a few ruins remain. Af ...re purple flags and grits. The Great Glen which traverses the county is an old line of earth fracture along which displacements have been produced during
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• National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology
  In general, the museum covers the history of Ireland from the Stone Age to the Late Middle Ages. Many important artefacts from the museum were feat It features displays on prehistoric Ireland, including Bronze Age work in gold, early mediæval church treasures of Celtic art, Viking Irelan
  10 KB (1,559 words) - 19:42, 27 July 2020
• Lanarkshire
  ...m is [[New Lanark]], the model town built at the opening of the Industrial Age and modelled by Robert Owen, the reformer, for the families of workers at N ...st in a belt 5–7 miles broad, which is brought up by a fault against the Old Red and the Silurian on the northern side. This fault runs by Lamington, Ro
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• Midlothian
  ...chest at Carlowrie; and standing stones at Lochend, at Comiston (the Caiy stone), and the "Cat Stane" near Kirkliston. ...y any measure; the vast majority of the towns and villages bear names from Old English; the termination ''-ton'' is very frequent.
  16 KB (2,425 words) - 22:30, 21 March 2017
• Orkney
  ...North and South Isles, all of which have an underlying geological base of Old Red Sandstone. The climate is mild and the soils are extremely fertile, mo ...years, as Mesolithic and Neolithic folk have left their mark. In the Iron Age the islands are assumed to have been occupied by Picts, whose enigmatic car
  51 KB (7,781 words) - 21:39, 29 January 2016
• Yell
  Notable buildings on the island include the 17th century Old Haa of Brough in Burravoe, a merchant's house now converted to a museum and ...by human erosion, or severe storms, creating new islands - or resurrecting old ones.
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• Shropshire
  ...lfield and there are also copper deposits on the western border. Mining of stone and sand aggregates is still going on in Mid-Shropshire, notably on Haughmo ...etton is sometimes referred to as a ''Little Switzerland''. Nearby are the old mining and quarrying communities on the [[Clee Hills]], notable geological
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• Somerset
  The name "Somerset" or "Somersetshire" is from the Old English language, in which it is found as ''Sumorsæte'' (and ''Sumersæte' There are numerous Iron Age hill forts in Somerset, some of which, like [[Cadbury Castle, Somerset|Cadb
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