#boulby

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Freightliner class 70 . by Steven Barker Via Flickr: Freightliner class 70 , 70010 , at work at South Bank and Middlesbrough in the North East of England .

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Cow Keeper's Field (1), Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cow Keeper’s Field (1), Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cup-Marked Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NZ 7540 1922

Also Known as:

BOU-5 (Brown & Chappell)

Archaeology & History

Cup-marked stone inside Cow keepers Field tomb

Inside the once prominent prehistoric tomb on the Cow Keeper’s Field, the northern antiquarians William Hornsby and John Laverick (1920) came across two small petroglyphs in association with a cremation burial, several feet south of the…

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Cow Keeper’s Field (2), Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cow Keeper’s Field (2), Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cup-and-Ring Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NZ 7540 1922

Also Known as:

BOU-5 (Brown & Chappell)

Archaeology & History

Cup-marks and linear forms

Inside the once prominent prehistoric tumulus on the Cow Keeper’s Field (now destroyed), the northern antiquarians William Hornsby and John Laverick (1920) came across two small portable petroglyphs: the Cow Keeper’s Field 1 carving, plus this “peculiarly…

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Cow Keepers Field, Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cow Keepers Field, Boulby, Easington, North Yorkshire

Cairn (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – NZ 7540 1922

Also Known as:

Boulby Barns

Archaeology & History

This prehistoric tomb was one in a cluster of tumuli in the Boulby district, uncovered by the northern antiquarians, William Hornsby and John Laverick in 1918.   Most of them have subsequently been destroyed – this one included.  When they visited the site, they described it as “a barrow…with a…

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There’s been a research laboratory at the bottom of the Boulby mine since the 1970s. This picture shows the mine in September 1970, the sea at the top of the image. At 1100 metres deep, it’s the deepest mine in Great Britain.

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Here scientists are attempting to detect WIMPs or weakly interacting massive particles. The depth of the mine allow the scientists at the Boulby Underground Laboratory to make observations without interference from cosmic and other rays and particles which are filtered out by over a kilometre thickness of rock. 

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Like the scene of a crime in salt. The miners work down here in 12 hour shifts and each carries canisters holding 10 litres of water.