#ironstone — Public Fediverse posts
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Jackson’s Bank—Medieval Trod
As you reach the top of Jackson’s Bank, it is hard not to imagine that, at the turn of the last century, weary walkers resting upon these boulders were serenaded by the rather pastoral sounds of iron-laden trucks grinding, screeching, and clattering their way down that incline on the opposite side of Greenhow B ...
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#CarrRidge #ClevelandHills #Greenhow #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #history #ironstone #medieval #railway
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On a stroll near #MaslinsBeach yesterday we named this stretch Rocky Road Beach 😋 The dark rock is an iron-rich
#ironstone
Also nearby are deposits of brightly-coloured
#ochre which was once traded from here right up to the Northern Territory
#geology #conglomerate