National Trust staff from the Lake District have joined Cumbria Wildlife Trust and archaeologists from an independent educational charity to carry out work which could show how the geography of a remote area of the county has changed over thousands of years.
Core samples have been taken from peat at Burnmoor Tarn and Great Moss in Eskdale which will be analysed by York Archaeology using radiocarbon dating.
The work will shed light on how flora and fauna has changed in Upper Eskdale over the last few thousand years and will help indicate what kind of human activity took place.
The sampling is part of peat restoration work on Eskdale Common which is being carried out thanks to funding from the Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme.
