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3 unusual facts about Southern Uplands


James Nicol

During these years he carried out important researches on the Southern Uplands of Scotland and on the structure of the Highlands.

Maiden Paps, Hawick

Although there are some well defined hills like the Maiden Paps, the Roxburgh Hills are gently rolling for the most part, like much of the Southern Uplands.

Scottish art in the Prehistoric era

The Romans began military expeditions into what is now Scotland from about 71 CE, building a series of forts, but by CE 87 the occupation was limited to the Southern Uplands and by the end of the first century the northern limit of Roman expansion was a line drawn between the Tyne and Solway Firth.


Daer Reservoir

Daer Reservoir is a man-made waterbody created by the damming of the Daer Water, a tributary of the River Clyde in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

Pennine Basin

The Pennine Basin is a sedimentary basin which was active during the Carboniferous Period and which reached from the Southern Uplands of Scotland in the north to the former Wales-London-Brabant Massif in the English Midlands to the south.


see also

Aschentalshalbe

Whilst the Tiefenbeek that rises north of the mountain flows northwest into the Sieber, the Grade Lutter that rises on its southern uplands is the right headstream of the Lutter that flows southwards into the Oder.