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Ridge and furrow on rough grazing land, Garnock Floods SWT Reserve
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North Ayrshire - Garnock Floods SWT Reserve
Ridge and furrow in two orientations at Garnock Floods SWT Reserve, on land which was formerly cultivated but has now reverted to rough grazing.
10 November 2019
Ayr Bay from Brown Carrick Hill
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CEP - Ayrshire
Ayr Bay from Brown Carrick Hill, Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1981.
16 August 1981
Traditional fallow croft field strip on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strip on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing a fallow strip which is left uncultivated. Note how wildlfowers including the red Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) have been left rather than killed by herbicides.
08 August 2017
Croft field strips and fallow on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strips on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing strip fields of mixed barley and oats, and a fallow section on the right. Note how wildlfowers have been left rather than killed by herbicides, which provides nectar for insects and seeds for birds.
08 August 2017
Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire
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South Lanarkshire
Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire, famous for its red Felsite rock, with which many roads in Lanarkshire are surfaced, and its periglacial stone stripes.
10 April 2016
R Tweed valley, Drumelzier, Borders
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Peebles Galashiels and Selkirk
Valley of the River Tweed near Drumelzier, Borders
10 April 2016
Tractor ploughing
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Tractor ploughing up grass field, Fallin, Stirlingshire
19 February 2013
Tractor ploughing
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Stirlingshire - Fallin and Wester Moss
Tractor ploughing up grass field, Fallin, Stirlingshire
19 February 2013
Lazy beds at da Ristie, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Lazy beds at da Ristie, Foula, old fields cultivated with raised ridges to deepen the soil, with deep ditches between them to drain the rain water. Now very few people live in this previously much busier crofting landscape.
30 June 2014
Mucklegrind and lazy beds, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
The croft land of da Nort Toons, Foula with Mucklegrind on the hill of Soberlie, and lazy beds on the lower ground, a system used in the past to deepen and drain the soil.
