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Research in the quarries

(22 May 2003)

Over the next 15 months, researchers from the Geography Department will be investigating the gravels, silts and peats of the river valleys in the Swale and Ure washlands in an attempt to produce a picture of how the plants, animals and human activity in the area have varied over the past 15,000 years. The team, headed up by Dr Antony Long, will be concentrating on quarry sites at Marfield, Near Masham, and at Ripon. Reported in the Northern Echo (10/05/03)