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	Langdale axe industry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Langdale axe industry is the name given by archaeologists to the centre of a specialised stone tool manufacturing at Great Langdale in England's Lake District during the Neolithic.
		The Langdale industry produced roughly hewn axes and simple blocks as well as the highly polished final product and all were traded on throughout Britain and Ireland.
		The manufacturers of the axes also built some of the first Neolithic stone circles such as that at Castlerigg..
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Langdale_axe_industry (231 words)

	Langdale axe industry -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Langdale (The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise) industry produced roughly hewn axes and simple blocks as well as the highly polished final product and all were traded on throughout Britain and Ireland.
		The manufacturers of the axes also built some of the first Neolithic (additional info and facts about stone circle) stone circles such as that at (additional info and facts about Castlerigg) Castlerigg..
		It has been suggested that the area itself may have had some mystical importance to its inhabitants and that axes from here were deemed significant across the (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic) British Isles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/langdale_axe_industry.htm (224 words)

	Lake District - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Historically, farming, in particular of sheep, was the major industry in the region.
		The primary site, on the slopes of the Langdale Pikes, is sometimes described as a 'stone axe factory' of the Langdale axe industry.
		Mining, particularly of copper, lead, silver, graphite and slate, was historically a major lakeland industry, mainly from the 16th century to the 19th century.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Lake_District (669 words)

	Industry \| TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of assemblage s connected with a single product industry product, such as the Langdale axe industry.
		Sunrise industry is a relatively new industry that is growing fast and expected to become important in future.
		The sex industry is the industry formed of commercial enterprises which employ sex worker s.
	www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Industry (480 words)

	Lake District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mid Western fells are a triangular shape, with the corners at the Irish Sea, Borrowdale and Langdale.
		With all the sheep lost at once, this knowledge has to be re-learnt, and some of the fells have had discreet electric fences strung across them for a period of five years, to allow the sheep to "re-heaf".
		The railways, built with traditional industry in mind, brought with them a huge increase in the number of visitors, and thus contributed to the growth of the tourism industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_District_National_Park (3033 words)

	British Archaeology, no 37, September 1998: Regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With a tourism industry generating over 12 million visitors every year, the area's peaceful qualities could be regarded as being under threat, but the view that the Lake District is a quiet retreat is in any case something of a fallacy.
		Not least among them is the Neolithic axe factory in Great Langdale, in use about 5,500 years ago, which produced the raw material for the impressive green-stone polished axes of the period.
		It was because of the proximity of a steel industry at Workington and White-haven that Vickers opened its factory on the south-west coast at Barrow-in-Furness, and although steel is no longer made, the Vickers plant survives.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba37/ba37regs.html (1491 words)

	Industry (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In modern economic settings, an industry is an area of economic production.
		An archaeological industry is a consistent range of assemblages connected with a single product such as the Langdale axe industry.
		Industry is also the name of several places, including, in the United States:
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Industry+(disambiguation) (109 words)

	CHAPTER VII--INDUSTRY AND THE PEERAGE; SELF HELP; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF CONDUCT AND PERSEVERANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Phipps throughout the latter part of his career, was not ashamed to allude to the lowness of his origin, and it was matter of honest pride to him that he had risen from the condition of common ship carpenter to the honours of knighthood and the government of a province.
		In 1652 his industry was rewarded by the appointment of physician to the army in Ireland, whither he went; and whilst there he was the medical attendant of three successive lords-lieutenant, Lambert, Fleetwood, and Henry Cromwell.
		His unflinching industry soon began to tell upon his fortunes; a few more years and he was not only enabled to do without assistance from home, but he was in a position to pay back with interest the debts which he had incurred.
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	Overviews - Industrial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the most important sources of these axes was Langdale in Cumbria and some have been found in Northumberland, for example at Chevington and Gunnerton Fell.
		At Green Shiel, on Holy Island, there are also hints of other ‘industries’ such as rearing and slaughtering of calves for their skins which were made into vellum, the raw material for illuminated manuscripts.
		The lead industry of the North Pennines in Durham and Northumberland is known from medieval documents and was an important source of silver.
	www.keystothepast.info /k2p/usp.nsf/pws/Keys+to+the+Past+-+Overviews+-+Industrial (3095 words)

	Langdale axe industry - TheBestLinks.com - British Isles, England, Neolithic, Lake District, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		The manufacturers of the axes also built some of the first Neolithic stone circles.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Langdale_axe_industry.html (257 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Ancient Britain
		Among the earliest monuments are the causewayed enclosures, most common in the south of England: roughly circular areas delineated by ditches and embankments that are interrupted every few metres to form a large number of crossing places.
		In the highland areas of Britain, a different type of industrial site appeared: the polished stone axes, beautiful and efficient, which are the most characteristic part of the Neolithic tool kit were made from a limited number of particularly suitable rocks and, where these naturally occurred, specialist axe factories developed.
		This industry was conducted on a large scale, and its products were exchanged over long distances: the axes from the best-documented production site, in Langdale (Cumbria), are commonest in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761570598___7/Ancient_Britain.html (868 words)

	Archaeological industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An archaeological industry is the name given to a consistent range of assemblage s connected with a single product, such as the Langdale axe industry.
		Samanalawewa Archaeological Project, Sri Lanka Headed by Dr Gill Juleff of the University of Exeter the Samanalawewa Archaeological Project, Sri Lanka focusing on evidence for a first millennium AD iron smelting industry, a new, aerodynamic, principle of smelting technology.
		Archaeological Data Archive Project Web documents with archaeological data that may be viewed online and files that may be downloaded from the CSA server for inspection on users' machines with the aid of their own software.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Archaeological_industry.html (444 words)

	Langdale Pikes - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Langdale Pikes
		The Langdale Pikes, north of Great Langdale in the Lake District, rise to a height of 732 m/2,403 ft above sea level.
		Looming over the Great Langdale Valley, the three peaks are known individually as Pike of Stickle, Harrison Stickle, and Pavey Ark.
		Three fells (hills) at the head of Great Langdale in Cumbria, England:; Harrison Stickle (732 m/2,400 ft), Pavey Ark (697 m/2,288 ft), and Pike o'Stickle (710 m/2,330 ft).
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Langdale%20Pikes (132 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Ancient Britain
		They developed a range of much smaller flint tools (known as microliths) and new types of tools, particularly a heavy axe (the “tranchet” axe), which suggests the need to crop and manage the resources of the forest.
		New forms of pottery appeared and inhumation was replaced with cremation, in which ashes were preserved in large urns, as the universal burial rite.
		New forms of metalwork were made in great variety: the flat axes of the earlier Bronze Age were replaced by flanged palstaves, which in turn gave way to socketed axes.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761570598__1/Ancient_Britain.html (3874 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ancient Britain
		The most distinctive monument of the Early Neolithic period is the long barrow, a rectangular mound of earth or rubble covering a burial place.
		Pottery was used, developing gradually from the plain, round-bottomed vessels used by the builders of the causewayed enclosures to the highly decorated grooved ware found at henge sites.
		A spectacular exception to the general poverty of settlement evidence is the village of Skara Brae (Orkney), a group of stone houses grouped tightly together and linked by stone passages, found beautifully preserved under sand dunes.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570598/Ancient_Britain.html (2138 words)

	Industry in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An industry trade group is generally a public relations organization funded, founded and formed by corporation s that operate in a specific industry.
		The meat packing industry is an industry that handles the slaughtering, processing and distribution of animals such as cattle, pig s, sheep and other livestock.
		Proponents of the infant industry argument theorize that protectionism..
	www.tutorgig.com /es/Industry/2 (875 words)

	Prehistoric Lakeland
		The Industrial Revolution had revitalised the area, making it into a tourist destination that continues to offer sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.
		Still, Langdale is considered to be the treasure of the Lake District and has been voted Britain’s most enduring beauty spot.
		It shows that the manufacture of blades in Langdale was an export industry, supplying the rest of Britain, making the Lakelands not an outskirt of a megalithic civilisation, but an industrial centre.
	www.philipcoppens.com /lakeland.html (2247 words)

	Lake District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Historically farming in particular of sheep was the major industry in the The breed most closely associated with the is the tough Herdwick.
		The primary on the slopes of the Langdale Pikes sometimes described as a 'stone axe factory'.
		Mining particularly of copper lead silver graphite and slate was historically a major lakeland industry from the 16th century to the 19th Some mining still takes place today - example slate mining continues at the Honister at the top of Honister Pass.
	www.freeglossary.com /Lake_District (830 words)

	Industry (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		See (The people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise) industry.
		An (additional info and facts about archaeological industry) archaeological industry is a consistent range of (A group of persons together in one place) assemblages connected with a single product such as the (additional info and facts about Langdale axe industry) Langdale axe industry.
		Industry is also the name of several places, including, in the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/In/Industry_(disambiguation).htm (166 words)

	Archaeology Insitute, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Another component of the industry is roughouts of large bifacial tools, mostly representing early stages of handaxe manufacture (Figure 6).
		However, the bulk of the flint assemblage is comprised of large numbers of non-Levallois cores (Figure 7), many cortical elements, flakes, chunks and chips as well as a small quantity of blade cores2 and blades.
		It will also contribute more generally towards a better understanding of raw material procurement and exploitation strategies, land use patterns and early human impact on the environment and landscape, in a region that represents the crossroads of the ancient hominid world.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/projects/mt_pua.html (2111 words)

	Impact of New Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on Socioeconomic and Educational Development of Africa ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The belief then was that if industrial technology aided the socioeconomic growth and development of Western nations, it should also propel socioeconomic growth in developing nations.
		For countries with major export-oriented telecommunications equipment industries (examples include Japan, Taiwan and South Korea), Langdale states that the need for an innovative domestic telecommunications services industry cannot be overstated.
		Langdale (1995) also believes that interactive multimedia is likely to provide a major global market for equipment manufacturers in the future.
	www.metafuture.org /Articles/icts.htm (6913 words)

	Grimes Graves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Assuming no more than two shafts were open at any one time, around 120 red deer would have needed to be bred and managed nearby in order to provide a steady supply of antler as well as skin, food and other products that the miners would require.
		In common with the difficult location of the Langdale axe industry, it has been suggested that Neolithic peoples placed great emphasis on acquiring their flint axes from hard to reach locations and that such effort gave the tools greater significance.
		Earlier flint mines in Britain such as Cissbury in Sussex did not approach the size and complexity of the operation at Grimes Graves and it is likely that tools from Grimes Graves were deemed to be in some way important over a wide area.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/grimes_graves (693 words)

	Langdale axe industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Langdale axe industry is the name given by archaeologists to the centre of a specialised stone toolmanufacturing in England 's LakeDistrict during the Neolithic.
		Archaeologists are able to identify the unique nature ofthe Langdale stone and have been able to reconstruct the production methods and trade patterns employed by the axe makers.
		TheLangdale industry produced roughly hewn axes andsimple blocks as well as the highly polished final product and all were traded on throughout Britain and Ireland.
	www.therfcc.org /langdale-axe-industry-187343.html (185 words)

	Lake District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Neolithic times, the Lake District was a major source of stone axes,examples of which have been found all over Britain.
		The primary site, on the slopes of the Langdale Pikes, is sometimes describedas a 'stone axe factory'.
		The locally-mined graphite led to the development of the pencil industry, especiallyaround Keswick.
	www.therfcc.org /lake-district-155895.html (600 words)

	CHAPTER TWO: The First Miners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And once in a while, someone would want a presentation axe or knife as a gift for a prospective father-in-law or a visiting elder, and he would have the satisfaction of using his utmost skill and receiving appropriate flattery as well as a new pair of boots or a fur cloak for his wife.
		Farming tools (axes, adzes, hoes, hammers) are heavier than the arrow points, spear points, knives, and scrapers of hunters.
		Greenstone axes from the bleak, inhospitable Langdale area of Northern England were traded over much of England in Neolithic times.
	www.geology.ucdavis.edu /~cowen/~GEL115/115CH2.html (5393 words)

	Archaeological industry - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America
		Les Industries Lithiques Taillees De Franchthi (Argolide, Grece Tome II : Les Industries Du Mesolithique Et Du Neolithique Initial)
		Les Industries Lithiques Taillees De Franchthi: Argolide, Grece (Tome I Presentation Generale Et Industries Paleolithiques)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /archaeological_industry.htm (201 words)

	Reach - A Brief History
		His quarry certainly included the red deer, which was common in this area; the ancient animal, to judge from the size of the antlers that have been found, was considerably larger than the modern red deer which has adapted to the poorer pasture of the uplands of this island.
		A newspaper report of Reach Fair in May 1858 notes with some relief that though the public houses, numerous at that time, were "well patronised, good order prevailed" among the 600 or so coprolite diggers at that time in the neighbourhood.
		Other industries in the village must have remained fairly constant through the centuries, rninistering to the local needs every village had.
	www.reach-village.co.uk /history.htm (6058 words)

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