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Genetic analysis of birth weight and related traits in Dorset Down and Hampshire Down sheep

Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, 2001
In recent years genetic improvement programmes for sheep in the UK have been primarily directed towards the improvement of growth and carcase traits. The possible correlated responses in other production traits, that may not be of such obvious economic importance, have not been fully assessed. Birth weight is such a trait.Although of no direct economic
J. A. Roden, J. M. Finch, W. Haresign
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Land at Herrison Road, Charlton Down, Dorset: an archaeological evaluation

2021
Twenty-seven trenches were opened. The trenching recorded archaeological features (nearly all ditches) in almost all of the 27 trenches. Most of the cropmarks recorded on aerial photographs were confirmed as surviving below-ground features and mostly of archaeological origin, although some were clearly of relatively recent date. Although a small amount
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Geophysical Survey of the Black Down Enclosure, near Sheep Down, Winterbourne Steepleton, Dorset

2017
Geophysical survey of enclosure excavated by Putnam in ...
Williams, A., Roberts, H.
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Excavation of a Barrow near the Hardy Monument, Black Down, Portesham, Dorset

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1958
The barrow whose excavation is described below was situated about 770 feet above Ordnance Datum a hundred yards south of the Hardy Monument on Black Down Hill, Portesham, on the edge of a large gravel pit. In the winning of gravel during the war the face of the pit had been worked round the barrow on both sides destroying the southern half of the ditch
M. W. Thompson   +2 more
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II.—Excavation of Barrows on Crichel and Launceston Downs, Dorset

Archaeologia, 1944
The excavations to be described were undertaken at the request of H.M. Office of Works in the summer of 1938, and were in the nature of ‘rescue work’, for the area on which the barrows lay had been acquired by a government department and it was felt desirable that some at least of the barrows should be excavated in advance of operations in order to ...
Stuart Piggott, C. M. Piggott
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