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The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40-mile (64 km) challenge walk across the highest and widest part of the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England.The route remembers the many corpses carried over the moors on old coffin routes and the ancient burial mounds encountered on the way; the name derives from a lyke, the corpse and the wake - watching over the deceased.
Damendorf Man is a German bog body discovered in 1900 [1] in the See Moor at the village of Damendorf in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Display and examination [ edit ]
Beatrice Chase (5 July 1874 – 3 July 1955) was the pen name for a British writer known during the first half of the 20th century for her Dartmoor-based novels.Her real name was Olive Katharine Parr, and she claimed to be directly descended from William Parr, the brother of Catherine, the sixth wife of Henry VIII.
Burnmoor Lodge, a former fishing lodge, stands by the southern shore and a mediaeval corpse road runs past the eastern shore where it fords the beck. [2] [3] Eskdale Moor or Boat How lies to the south of the tarn. The tarn is one of the sites in DEFRA's UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network. [2]
Weerdinge Men The remains of the Weerdinge Men shortly after discovery in 1904 prepared for air drying (photographer Geert Jannes Landweer []). The Weerdinge Men is the name given to two bog bodies found in 1904 in Weerdinge, Drenthe, in the southern part of Bourtange moor, in the Netherlands.
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Amcotts Moor Woman is the name given to a bog body discovered in 1747 in a bog near Amcotts, Lincolnshire, England, who lived sometime between A.D. 200 and 400. [ 1 ] Discovery
The route would have been repeated, if not for the changing of the route due to high rainfall, in the Men's road race in the 2019 UCI World Championships [5] going through the climb Grinton moor, which lasted for 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) at an average gradient of 7%. [6]