'Glen Maye to Lag-ny-Keeilley : Keeills, Quarterlands and Callua vulgaris - Landscape change and continuity'

Date(s): 1994

Scope & Content: Dissertation with colour illustrations submitted for Diploma in Landscape Interpretation to the University of Liverpool by Centre for Manx Studies student.
Summary details provided by author read as follows, 'This relatively small portion of the Island's coastal land is a microcosm of the variety prevalent in the whole. It exhibits transitions from improved grasslands perhaps little more than a hundred years old to mountain heaths whose antiquity may be measured in thousands of years; from beaches and foreshores of flags to hundred foot cliffs plunging into the sea; from a thriving village to abandoned farmsteads.
'While the evidence for the earliest times is scanty, there is enough to say that there were people in this area from the Mesolithic period onwards. The picture of the area which can be built up from the available evidence is never entire, yet there is sufficient to be certain that the swathe of land, easy to cultivate and relatively productive, extending northwards from The Niarbyl in a strip about 800m wide beside the coast, has supported people since about 6,000BC.
'Much of what can now be seen of the use of the land itself dates from the last century; some of the forestry is less than thirty years old. There is, however, an infrastructure dating back at least a thousand years and, implicit in the siting of Bronze Age funerary monuments, an apparent awareness of the significance of place'. Covers solid geology, geomorphology, ecology,archaeology from Mesolithic to modern, also landscape evidence through Medieval period covering from AD 500 to 1266, post medieval 1266-1736 (end of Stanley line), modern 1736 to 1994.

Language: English

Extent: 1 volume

Physical description: Photocopy

Item name: dissertation

Collection: Manuscript Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: MS 10402

Record class: Private

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