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79 relations: Balancing rock, Barony and Castle of Corsehill, Beith, Caratacus, Caria, Carrick, Scotland, Charles Rowland Twidale, Cornish language, Dartmoor, Davies Gilbert, Druid, East Ayrshire, Edmund Gibson, Erosion, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, Galicia (Spain), George Owen of Henllys, Glacial erratic, Glacier, Great Britain, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, West Yorkshire, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia, Harpasa, Hessilhead, Howwood, Ice rafting, Iona, James Paterson (journalist), Jerash, John Watson (antiquary), Kidston Lake, Kilbarchan, Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, Land's End, Lanyon Quoit, List of Dartmoor tors and hills, Logan Rock, Lugar, East Ayrshire, Lustleigh, Megalith, Merlin, Nancledra, North Ayrshire, Oliver Cromwell, Oliver Goldsmith, Ordnance Survey, Oyndarfjørður, Pedras de abalar, ..., Pembrokeshire, Pendennis, Pendour Cove, Pliny the Elder, Plymouth, Ptolemy, Queen Victoria, Renfrewshire, Rhydderch Hael, Rock (geology), Sailing stones, Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet, Site of Special Scientific Interest, Sithney, South Ayrshire, Spheroidal weathering, Stones of Scotland, Straiton, The Deserted Village, Thomas Pennant, Thurgartstone, Treen (St Levan), William Borlase, William Camden, William Mason (poet), William Stukeley, Witchcraft, Yorkshire, Zennor. Expand index (29 more) »
Balancing rock
A balancing rock, also called balanced rock or precarious boulder, is a naturally occurring geological formation featuring a large rock or boulder, sometimes of substantial size, resting on other rocks, bedrock, or on glacial till.
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Barony and Castle of Corsehill
The old Barony and castle of Corsehill lay within the feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Stewarton, now East Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Beith
Beith is a small town situated in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, Scotland approximately south-west of Glasgow.
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Caratacus
Caratacus (Brythonic *Caratācos, Middle Welsh Caratawc; Welsh Caradog; Breton Karadeg; Greek Καράτακος; variants Latin Caractacus, Greek Καρτάκης) was a 1st-century AD British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest.
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Caria
Caria (from Greek: Καρία, Karia, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia.
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Carrick, Scotland
Carrick (A' Charraig) is a former comital district of Scotland which today forms part of South Ayrshire.
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Charles Rowland Twidale
Charles Rowland Twidale is an Australian geomorphologist active at the University of Adelaide.
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Cornish language
Cornish (Kernowek) is a revived language that became extinct as a first language in the late 18th century.
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Dartmoor
Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England.
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Davies Gilbert
Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy, 6 March 1767 – 24 December 1839) was a Cornish engineer, author, and politician.
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Druid
A druid (derwydd; druí; draoidh) was a member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures.
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East Ayrshire
East Ayrshire (Aest Ayrshire, Siorrachd Àir an Ear) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland.
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Edmund Gibson
Edmund Gibson (1669 – 6 September 1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Eysturoy
Eysturoy (pronounced) (Østerø) meaning 'East Island' is a region and the second-largest of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, both in size and population.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galician: Galicia, Galiza; Galicia; Galiza) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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George Owen of Henllys
George Owen of Henllys (1552 – 26 August 1613) was a Welsh antiquarian, author, and naturalist.
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Glacial erratic
Indian Rock in the Village of Montebello, New York A glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England.
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Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia
Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia is an encyclopedia edited by John Hammerton and published in London, England by The Education Book Co. Ltd in 1921/22.
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Harpasa
Harpasa was a city and bishopric in Roman Asia Minor (Asian Turkey), which only remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
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Hessilhead
Hessilhead is in Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Howwood
Howwood (The Howewid, Coille an Dail) is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
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Ice rafting
Ice rafting is the transport of various materials by ice.
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Iona
Iona (Ì Chaluim Chille) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland.
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James Paterson (journalist)
James Paterson (18 May 1805 – 6 May 1876) was a Scottish journalist on numerous newspapers, writer and antiquary.
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Jerash
Jerash (Arabic: جرش, Ancient Greek: Γέρασα) is the capital and the largest city of Jerash Governorate, Jordan, with a population of 50,745 as of 2015.
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John Watson (antiquary)
John Watson (1725–1783) was an English clergyman and antiquary.
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Kidston Lake
Kidston Lake is a lake in the Spryfield area of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Kilbarchan
Kilbarchan is a village and civil parish in central Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Kyaiktiyo Pagoda
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda (ကျိုက်ထီးရိုးဘုရား,; ကျာ်သိယဵု,; also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma.
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Land's End
Land's End (Penn an Wlas or Pedn an Wlas) is a headland and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England.
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Lanyon Quoit
Lanyon Quoit is a dolmen in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 2 miles southeast of Morvah.
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List of Dartmoor tors and hills
This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills.
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Logan Rock
The Logan Rock (Men Omborth, meaning balanced stone) near the village of Treen in Cornwall, England, UK, is an example of a logan or rocking stone.
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Lugar, East Ayrshire
Lugar is a small village in East Ayrshire, southwest Scotland.
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Lustleigh
Lustleigh is a small village and civil parish nestled in the Wrey Valley, inside the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England.
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Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
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Merlin
Merlin (Myrddin) is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry.
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Nancledra
Nancledra is a village in west Cornwall, England, UK.
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North Ayrshire
North Ayrshire (Siorrachd Àir a Tuath) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland.
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).
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Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.
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Oyndarfjørður
Oyndarfjørður (Andefjord) is a village on the northeastern coast of the Faroese island of Eysturoy in the Runavíkar municipality.
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Pedras de abalar
The Pedras de abalar, Galician for "oscillating stones", are several large stones in Galicia, Spain, that can easily be moved by a person or the wind.
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Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire (or; Sir Benfro) is a county in the southwest of Wales.
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Pendennis
The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848–1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Pendour Cove
Pendour Cove is a beach in west Cornwall, England, UK.
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Pliny the Elder
Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire (Siorrachd Rinn Friù, Renfrewshire) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.
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Rhydderch Hael
Rhydderch Hael (Rhydderch the Generous, fl. 580 – c. 614) was a ruler of Alt Clut, a Brittonic kingdom in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North" of Britain.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Sailing stones
Sailing stones, also known as sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks, are a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention.
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Sir Richard Vyvyan, 8th Baronet
Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 8th Baronet (6 June 1800 – 15 August 1879) was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1825 and 1857.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.
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Sithney
Sithney (Merthersydhni) is a village and civil parish in West Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire (Sooth Ayrshire; Siorrachd Inbhir Àir a Deas) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire.
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Spheroidal weathering
Spheroidal weathering is a form of chemical weathering that affects jointed bedrock and results in the formation of concentric or spherical layers of highly decayed rock within weathered bedrock that is known as saprolite. When saprolite is exposed by physical erosion, these concentric layers peel (spall) off as concentric shells much like the layers of a peeled onion.
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Stones of Scotland
There are many large stones of Scotland of cultural and historical interest, notably the distinctive Pictish stones, but also the other types discussed below.
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Straiton
Straiton is a village on the River Girvan in South Ayrshire in Scotland, mainly built in the 18th century, but with some recent housing.
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The Deserted Village
The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770.
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Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.
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Thurgartstone
The Thurgartstone or Ogrestone is a famous stone near Dunlop in East Ayrshire in Scotland.
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Treen (St Levan)
Treen (Tredhin) is a small village in the parish of St Levan, in the far west of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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William Borlase
William Borlase (2 February 1696 – 31 August 1772), Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist.
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William Camden
William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
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William Mason (poet)
William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English divine, poet, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener.
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William Stukeley
William Stukeley (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician, and Anglican clergyman.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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Zennor
Zennor is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocking_stone
