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		Trackways represent the preserved footprints of animals as they walked or crept along a fine muddy shoreline.
		Since no body fossils have been found of the ancient animals that left the tracks in Alabama, their trackways are the only real evidence we have of their existence and how they lived.
		We decided that the best way to make this remarkable database of trackway specimens available for general study would be to publish a monograph containing high quality reproductions of the photographs as well as the results of the professional studies of the tracks that have already been made.
	bama.ua.edu /~rbuta/monograph/proposal/prop.html (1718 words)

	Overview of Dinosaur Tracking
		Other useful trackway measurements include trackway width and track rotation--the degree to which individual tracks are turned inward ("pigeon toed") or outward ("duck-footed").
		A "sprinting" trackway of a theropod dinosaur, with an average pace of 1.81 meters, and a stride of 359 cm (over 11.5 feet).
		One popular exercise using trackway measurements is to estimate the speed of the trackmaker.
	paleo.cc /paluxy/ovrdino.htm (6844 words)

	Ancient trackway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is commonly used in the British isles to describe the ancient trackways that already existed when the Romans arrived, in Britain.
		Such trackways, were often built on by the Romans and form the foundations of some of the current system of roads.
		It is the focal point of many ancient trackways and is guarded by four huge banks with a height in places of over 40 feet (12 m) from the bottom of the ditch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_trackway (763 words)

	Trackways
		The first is to offer support for Trackways students generally and so people can post there experiences of the courses they have attended, in order that others can get a taste of what a course entails.
		Trackways was the first survival school in the U. to offer a year course.
		Trackways has inspired and mentored many other teachers and inspired the creation of three other survival schools to date.
	www.trackways.co.uk (360 words)

	Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Pre-Roman trackways were sometimes converted to Roman standards, and in such cases the road naturally preserves its original winding course, but must necessarily be included as a Roman road.
		However, in such situations it is often likely that an early trackway was followed and improved to Roman standards, and in these cases the course of the road will be truly winding, but may show some straight lengths in a few places, together with the usual indications of Roman make-up.
		An example of such terracing is to be seen on an old trackway on the hillside to the west of the Pentwyn Reservoir at SO 040 153 which, despite being carefully graded, has little surfacing in evidence (Volume 2.
	www25.brinkster.com /padrig/tracks1/track1ch1.htm (3671 words)

	Alabama Fossil Trackways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The trackways collected from the mine are of vertebrate as well as invertebrate animals that lived during the Late Carboniferous Period of Earth history, known to North American geologists as the Pennsylvanian Period.
		Although no fossils of the ancient animals that made the tracks have been found, the trackways record the dynamics of life on land nearly 90 million years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth.
		Today's horseshoe crabs are "living fossils", and the ancient ones that left the tracks probably looked very similar to modern ones.
	www.westga.edu /~bpsweb/New_Items/trackways.html (1822 words)

	Sigma Leisure Books - Walks in Ancient Lakeland
		Ancient Wales for the purposes of this book is divided into Anglesey, North Wales, and South Wales.
		There is the opportunity not only to enjoy the peace and quiet of the valleys, the country lanes and footpaths, around modern farms and villages, but also to climb high into the still wild and remote mountains.
		There are sketch maps to guide you, and the author brings the text to life with his intricate hand-drawn sketches and detailed descriptions of the wonderful scenery and wildlife.
	www.sigmapress.co.uk /harri797.html (314 words)

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		These ancient trackways are remarkably similar to traces made by the modern horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus, which is often referred to as a living fossil.
		The normal walking legs are pincers, resembling the pincers of crabs or scorpions, but the males have differentiated graspers, adapted to hold onto the female during fertilization of the eggs.
		One of the large trackways clearly shows a morphological difference among several individual tracks, so the sex of the tracemaker can be inferred to be male.
	bama.ua.edu /~rbuta/monograph/shood.html (445 words)

	// UW - Madison GEOLOGY MUSEUM \\
		After each trackway is made, have children examine it closely, noting the clues that tell how it was formed.
		After several trackways have been made and discussed, have most of the class cover their eyes while one or more students make trackways according to teacher directions.
		Tell the students that all sauropod trackways found so far show that they were walking.
	www.geology.wisc.edu /~museum/footprintsdetectives.html (1241 words)

	Ley lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They are usually identified by so-called ‘ley-hunters’ using maps showing ancient sites, churches, crossroads and so on located along a straight line that can range from one or two to many kilometres in length.
		However, Crawford’s reasons were straightforward: for ley lines to be acceptable to the archaeological community as prehistoric trackways, Watkins would need to demonstrate that either the alignments could be shown to be genuinely ancient by archaeological means or that the markers along their lengths were similarly ancient.
		The scene was thus set for the elevation of ancient trackways to something more spiritual.
	kjmatthews.users.btopenworld.com /cult_archaeology/ley_lines.html (1062 words)

	A-Z of Cornish Towns and Villages. Copyrighted material === Cornish-Links.co.uk === (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The ancient trackways across Cardinham Downs show the importance of the place in former times and include both the modern A30 running north to Launceston and the A38 going east to Plymouth.
		An anciently called Corantyn, is situated in the Meneage district on the Lizard; it is in the deanery and Hundred of Kerrier.
		This peaceful village with its ancient church, sits on a sunny hill overlooking the Hayle Estuary Bird Sanctuary, and backs on to the extensive sand dunes of Mexico Towans which leads to the three mile sandy beach which runs from the mouth of the Hayle Estuary to Godrevy Lighthouse.
	www.cornish-links.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /A-Z.htm (11044 words)

	Science in Christian Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tridactyl patterns indicating dinosaur toes (in some cases also claws) are visible in each theropod trackway of the plantigrade variety which has been considered a "giant mantrack trail" to correlate with Genesis 6:4.
		The dinosaur trackways are spectacular, worthy of exploration apart from any search for non-existent "mantracks." Most have been attributed to Brontosaurus (properly, Apatosaurus) and Tyrannosaurus (in Morris, 1980; Dougherty, 1984), though neither genus is known from the Lower Cretaceous Comanchean Series of Texas.
		Glen Rose Formation is a sequence of limestones interbedded with maris and shales, rich in clues to the ancient environment: apparently a subtropical, and tidal flat and estuary between 100 and 120 million years ago.
	www.asa3.org:16080 /asa/PSCF/1989/PSCF3-89Armstrong.html (1726 words)

	Ancient trackways (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the southern extremity of GW is found the ancient port of Winchelsea.
		It is realised that on a 1:25000 map, 1mm= 25 metres, but using a magnifying glass enhances the measurement.
		All these seven churches are of ancient foundation, which of course cannot be the case for all the 340 churches used in calculating the “church density”.
	www.aveglaswin.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /ancient_trackways.html (938 words)

	Dinosaur Tracks and Trackways - Behaviour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Trackways may indicate specific behaviours or social interactions.
		A site with many trackways may not necessarily indicate herding or other social groupings, especially if the hiatus between deposition was particularly lengthy.
		Trackways can also indicate swimming, stampeding or even limping dinosaurs (Thulborn & Wade, 1984 in Thulborn, 1990).
	palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /Palaeofiles/Tracks/Report6/Behaviour.html (330 words)

	Archaeology and Early History: Communications & transport - Roman and Saxon roads & transport
		Although the routes of these ancient trackways were little altered, the standard of the track surface would be upgraded to meet Roman standards.
		It is likely that the self-contained and rather insular Saxon settlements which emerged between the 5th and 7th centuries would have made use of such parts of Roman roads as remained in a passable condition.
		Haulage of such cargoes overland by cart would be a long and cumbersome process, particularly along minor trackways, which were not designed to accommodate heavy or bulky vehicles.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /early_history/transport_rs.shtml (1338 words)

	Iceni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Coyns afford conjecture of early habitation in these parts, though the City of Norwich arose from the ruins of Venta, and though perhaps not without some habitation before, was enlarged, built, and nominated by the Saxons.
		The Icknield Way, an ancient trackway linking East Anglia to the Chilterns may be named after the Iceni.
		Tacitus records that the Iceni were not conquered in the Claudian invasion of AD 43, but had come to a voluntary alliance with the Romans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iceni (700 words)

	Bere Regis Iron Age
		The drawing below is based on a 1724 engraving, and although 18th century engravings are often inaccurate and exaggerated, some idea of Woodbury's original appearance is conveyed in it, being drawn at a time before much of the damage to the outer banks had taken place.
		The ancient settlements are therefore to be found on this higher clearer ground, and the trackways occur as main ridgeways with subsidiary branches, only descending into and crossing the valleys where a higher route was not possible.
		The exact routes of these ancient trackways must of necessity be conjectural, but evidence of them still exists in many ways-for instance, in Saxon times when many of them were still in use, their routes were often used to delineate parish boundaries.
	www.bereregis.org /Iron.htm (686 words)

	Sigma Leisure Books - Walks in Ancient Lakeland
		A collection of 24 fascinating ancient Lakeland circular walks ranging in length from 2 to 10 miles, each visiting sites and monuments form the Neolithic and Bronze ages, linked where possible with ancient trackways.
		Follow the ancient trackways linking these ancient sites and explore largely unknown areas to uncover the mysteries of the lives of our ancestors in this timeless landscape.
		Robert Harris, a primary school teacher, developed his interest in ancient history through years of walking and sketching in the Lake District.
	www.sigmapress.co.uk /harri763.html (240 words)

	Coast and Country Cottages Pembrokeshire - Celtic History and Holiday Cottages (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These huge stones once marked the entrance to the burial mound, and as you stand beneath them you can see the same unspoilt view of Cardigan Bay [and some say as far as Ireland!] as their builders must have done.
		This scene is still pretty much as it appears today, and in the late evening at the end of dusk you can still see men fishing in the Teifi with nets slung between their coracles.
		These ancient designed boats made of skin and branches are very similar to the Irish curragh, and this activity has barely changed in thousands of years.
	www.celticwestwales.com.cob-web.org:8888 (526 words)

	Jericho Echo
		For the name, derived from the parable of the Good Samaritan, was often given to an inn on the outskirts of a city where belated travellers, arriving after the city gates had closed at sunset, could find a bed.
		For three ancient trackways crossed Port Meadow to its exit at Aristotle Lane into Oxford via Walton Street.
		As carts replaced packhorses and the roads became safer growing disuse of the old trackways was compounded by the diversion of the main flow of the Thames from the Seacourt, or Shire, Stream to its present channel.
	www.pstalker.com /echo/sk_jerichohouse.html (442 words)

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		Brownhills was (and still is) a meeting point for ancient roads and trackways since Prehistoric times.
		It is thought that the Watling Street was in use before the Romans came, what were later called the Chester Road and Coventry Road are also thought to have been ancient trackways.
		The previously mentioned Knaves Castle may have been a Roman guard post or fort on the Watling Street, it was situated on a hill overlooking the junction of three ancient trading routes, Watling Street, Coventry Road, and Ironstone road.
	members.lycos.co.uk /brownhillspast/bhillshistory.html (970 words)

	Archenfield Archaeology Projects - Trackways
		Using only hand tools she makes on-off sculptural chairs from native hardwood whose designs evolve as she follows the natural curves and character of the wood.
		She is a member of ‘Trackways to Remember’, and is passionate about ancient trackways - like the grain in wood they meander across our landscape connecting people and places, thoughts and ideas.
		The Trackways to Remember project is providing her with an opportunity to respond to her local landscape in a very personal way.
	www.archenfield.com /Trackways.htm (563 words)

	Watling Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans.
		The name of the town of Wellington, Shropshire, which lies just east of Shrewsbury, is believed to be a corruption of the word 'Watling town' as Watling Street supposedly ran straight through the centre of Wellington.
		The use of the street name is retained along the ancient road in many places: for instance, to the south east of London in Kent (including the towns of Canterbury, Gillingham, Rochester, Gravesend, Dartford, and Bexleyheath).
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Watling_Street (864 words)

	An Interview with Julian Cope
		Traveling these ancient trackways, the honey-voiced baritone says, "I don't sit around with a guitar.
		The ancient landscape is so living and vibrant you only have to go to those power points.
		The only way the British ever appreciate their own land is you see a couple of witches from San Francisco doing a ritual at Avebury, and you realize these people have traveled seven thousand miles.
	www.sironaknight.com /bs8.htm (2364 words)

	The Life of Thomas Telford
		We find, however, that numerous attempts were made in early times to preserve the ancient ways and enable a communication to be maintained between the metropolis and the rest of the country, as well as between one market town and another.
		Thus, "A Country Tradesman," addressing the public in 1678, in a pamphlet entitled 'The Ancient Trades decayed, repaired again,--wherein are declared the several abuses that have utterly impaired all the ancient trades in the Kingdom,' urges that the chief cause of the evil had been the setting up of Stage-coaches some twenty years before.
		When our artist was in the neighbourhood, sketching the ancient bridge on the moor and the site of the old fair, a farmer said to him, "I well remember the train of pack-horses and the effect of their jingling bells on the silence of Dartmoor.
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/tlfrd.htm (16714 words)

	The City of Winchester, U.K.
		Winchester College, the oldest school in the Kingdom, with it’s cloisters, school and a whole wealth of historic, ancient and modern buildings.
		The ancient Hospital of St Cross with its two orders of Brethren each wearing a different colour and style of dress.
		The Manor of God Begot, once an ancient Manor with it’s own Laws, Officers and Court is represented by the ancient God Begot House, in use to this day, but without it’s ancient privileges of sanctury and justice.
	www.winchester-uk.info (668 words)

	Rivers and sacrifice
		Discovering ancient beliefs in folklore of this kind is a hopeless quest, and besides, people have tried the game before and got it wrong.
		It is hard to believe in the moat lady as an ancient Celtic goddess, given the recent origins of her environment.
		The stories about life-demanding rivers are not echoes of an ancient faith, but the active response of story-tellers to the tragedies of the present.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /articles/rivers.htm (3382 words)

	Fine Original Landscapes from Mysterious Wiltshire
		It is a place of gigantic White Horses, sacred standing stones, ancient trackways, medieval villages and sumptuous stately homes.
		The geology of the county provided ancient traffic routes (via the dry chalk hills) converging on The Plain.
		There is a plethora of barrows, dolmens and ancient burial grounds, representing a wide historical range.
	www.zednet.co.uk /moleend/page1.html (790 words)

	The Shape of Life . The First Hunter \| PBS
		Modern representatives of this pioneering ancient design are the flatworms -- a group of animals in the phylum Platyhelminthes (pronounced "pla-tee-HEL-minthes").
		This unsung group includes such animals as freshwater planaria, psychedelic marine polyclads and parasitic tapeworms and flukes.
		In the mountains of central California, Paleontologist Whitey Hagadorn studies ancient trackways of bygone worms.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/shapeoflife/episodes/hunter.html (253 words)

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