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Dear TAS Members and Friends,
Here are some late summer events and open days you may find interesting—enjoy the outdoors!
North York Moors Village Shows
Meet the Planning, Park Services and Conservation teams and talk to an Area Ranger
 Ami Walker – Conservation Land Management Adviser – invites you to learn more about their work in the National Park
A real good show!
A highlight of my summer and one of the things that I look forward to every year is attending the local Agricultural Shows in and around the North York Moors, where I get the chance to help man the National Park tent.
This year I attended Thornton Dale Show and Rosedale Show. Having the chance to catch up in a less formal environment with farmers and land owners whom I have worked with over the years is great, and I love to find out how they have done on the day with showing their sheep and cattle. I also really enjoy chatting about the work I do at the National Park with the wider public and visitors; people that I wouldn’t usual get to meet.
There are still more Shows in the North York Moors this summer:
If you get the chance to come to one, call in to the National Park tent and see us – find out more about the National Park while the kids make a badge and do the quiz. Members of our Planning, Park Services and Conservation teams as well as an Area Ranger will be there. We are always happy to answer any questions that you have – we like a challenge!
Ami did get the opportunity at Rosedale Show to shoot a few video clips. If you want to have look, they’re on the North York Moors National Park’s YouTube page.
Mesolithic Open Days at Flixton Island, Vale of Pickering
See the latest excavations and finds, experience sounds of the Mesolithic, quiz the experts, walk the landscape, volunteer to dig!
 Meet the Star Carr Project Team and Tim Burkinshaw of the Carrs Wetland Project
Timetable
The Star Carr Mesolithic Project Team are holding an open weekend at their excavations at Flixton Island between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August. Please come along and visit them to learn more about the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites that they are digging.
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Site tours both Saturday 24-Aug and Sunday 25-Aug:
>> 10.00, 12.30, 15.30 | tours last about 30 minutes
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Opportunity to see some of the recent finds
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 Experience the "Mesolithic soundscape" where you can sit in the middle of a circle of speakers and immerse yourself in reconstructed Mesolithic sounds – wild animals, flint knapping, boating across the lake
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Visit the book stall | Star Carr booklet £2 or the book £13 | profits go towards further public events
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On the Saturday only, guided walks around the wetland landscape with Tim Burkinshaw of The Carrs Wetland Project – join Tim to look for clues of shrinking peat soils and learn how local farmers are helping to protect the heritage of this floodplain landscape and its wildlife:
>> 11.00 and 14.00 | walks last about an hour
Directions
The site is located down North Street in Flixton near Scarborough North Yorkshire, YO11 3UA, NGR: TA 039 812. You can either park in Flixton and walk down North Street or drive down North Street. North Street is a single track lane with limited passing or turning space. It is possible to drive down to the site and park off-road in the field adjacent to the dig by kind permission of the farmer.
If you choose to drive down the lane please proceed very slowly with great care for pedestrians, dogs, horses, etc.
The pub in Flixton village, The Fox and Hounds, cannot provide parking unless you intend to have lunch there and as it is bank holiday it may be worth booking in | Tel 01723 890301
How to volunteer
Anyone who would still like a chance to volunteer for excavations, please email the Project Manager, Mike Bamforth who is arranging these opportunities.
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