Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Robert Millner Shackleton FRS (1909-2001) NCUACS catalogue no. 158/1/08 by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Description level: Fonds Date of material: | 1929-2007 Deposited in: Title: Compiled by: Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper Extent of material: 12 boxes + outsize maps Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Robert Millner Shackleton FRS (1909-2001), geologist NCUACS catalogue no. 158/1/08 © 2008 National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, University of Bath. The Library, Geological Society of London Reference code: GB 0378 LDGSL 1090 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists in the production of this catalogue is made possible by the support of the Geological Society of London R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THIS COLLECTION MAY YET BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: BURLINGTON HOUSE PICCADILLY THE LIBRARY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON LONDON R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION B NOTEBOOKS B.1-B.171 SECTION C MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS C.1-C.108 SECTION D TRYWERYN DAM CONSULTANCY R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 GENERAL INTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The material was received for cataloguing from the Library of the Geological Society of London in August 2007. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF ROBERT MILLNER SHACKLETON Robert Millner Shackleton was born in Purley, Surrey, on 30 December 1909. He was educated at the Quakers’ (Society of Friends) Sidcot School in Somerset and the University of Liverpool, graduating B.Sc. Geology with First Class Honours in 1930. He went on to research at Liverpool under P.G.H. Boswell on the geology of the Moel Hebog area of Snowdonia in North Wales (Ph.D. 1934), then won a Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London 1932-1934. In 1935 he was appointed Chief Geologist to Whitehall Exploration Ltd in Fiji but returned to Imperial College as Lecturer in Geology in 1936. discovered prehistoric human artefacts at Olorgesailie, a lower Palaeolithic (Acheulean) site Gold Belt, and Nanyuki and Maralal. His studies extended into the geometry of the orogenic belts of southwest of Nairobi. In the mid-1940s Mary and L.S.B. Leakey excavated the site and Shackleton Shackleton returned to Imperial College in 1945 and was offered a Professorship there. However, he collaborated with the investigations, preparing geological maps of the area around the Olorgesailie part of the wartime strategic planning programme. He surveyed widely throughout Kenya producing In 1940 Shackleton was appointed a geologist in the Mining and Geological Department of Kenya, as East Africa and the volcanism that produced the Rift System. In 1942 the archaeologist Mary Leakey reports for the Geological Survey of Kenya on the areas of Malikisi, North Kavirondo, Nyeri, the Migori He formally retired in his opportunities for research in Africa, Shackleton became Professor of Geology in the University of thought the department too unmanageable and in 1948 returned to Liverpool as the Herdman Leeds and joined the staff of the Research Institute of African Geology (serving as Director from 1965 For the year 1970-1971 Shackleton was Royal Society Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Geology. In his time in the Herdman chair, he re-organised the Liverpool geology department and put it at the forefront of geological research in Britain. In 1962, in order to increase site and the area between Olorgesailie and Ngong. until retirement). Professor of Geology at the Haile Selassie University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 1975 but was Research Fellow at the Open University from 1977 until his death and remained very active in field geology. Shackleton’s influence on his profession was profound. His achievements were recognized by the award of the Silver Medal of the Liverpool Geological Society (1957) and the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London (1970), and his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society (19771). His Royal Society citation recorded that he was: ‘Well-known for his contributions to the study of crystalline rocks, more particularly of rock deformation and large scale tectonics. A versatile pioneer in investigation of the Caledonides of Wales and western Ireland, of Rift Valley vulcanicity and Pre-Cambrian tectonics. His papers and discussions have influenced much recent work in these fields in which he has trained many of the younger British workers. Of particular importance have been his work on Tertiary volcanics in Kenya, his understanding of the Pre-Cambrian of eastern and central Africa and his accounts of Dalradian structures and deposits’. Shackleton produced some 160 scientific papers and through encouragement of younger colleagues exerted a deep influence on several generations of geologists. He had an extremely wide knowledge of his subject, from the origins of the Earth to the evolution of man. Although his earlier work had 1960s), Sudan and Kenya (in the early 1980s). Just prior to his death he was working on a detailed the central and western Himalayas. At the age of 75 he led a pioneering Royal Society geological Shackleton died on 3 May 2001. He married three times and left five children (two sons and three focused on the British Isles, he developed a particular interest in the geology of East Africa. major studies across the Limpopo Belt and adjacent Archaean greenstone belts of traverse across Tibet, in collaboration with the Academica Sinica, Beijing. Zimbabwe-Botswana-South Africa (in the 1970s) and projects across the orogenic systems of Egypt, Shackleton initiated structural studies across orogenic belts in Tanzania-Zambia-Malawi (in the late and continuing research interests included the Pre-Cambrian geology of Arabia and the tectonics of daughters), including the distinguished geoscientist Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006). compilation of the Pre-Cambrian geology of East Africa. Shackleton’s interests were global, however, Biographical Memoir of Shackleton. Section A, Biographical, is very slight. It includes obituaries and a copy of the Royal Society DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Section B, Notebooks, includes the main numbered sequence of Shackleton's notebooks of geological fieldwork from 1929 to 1988. These record his work throughout the world, with particularly good coverage of Shackleton’s research in Kenya in the 1940s, Ireland from the late 1940s onwards, Fiji in the 1950s, Scotland and North Wales from the 1950s, and southern and east Africa in the 1960s. The numbering is not chronological and some of the enumeration may date from after the notebook was used. The sequence is not complete, a number of notebooks were missing. There is also a sequence of numbered notebooks running from | to X, covering Shackleton's work in Fiji, November 1935-August 1936 as Chief Geologist to Whitehall Exploration Ltd. Unnumbered notebooks include a pocket notebook used by Shackleton to record his attendance, while still an undergraduate, at the 15th International Geological Congress held in Pretoria, South Africa, 1929, and a conference notebook for 'The Fourth IGCP 348 (The Mozambique and related belts) Field Meeting in Ethiopia and Eritrea March 15-25, 1996’. Section C, Maps and photographs, is divided into four. The first subsection presents material documenting the geology of Moel Hebog, in North Wales. Shackleton's Ph.D. was on the geology of this area and he returned to Moel Hebog later in his career. Accordingly the material may have originated from a number of visits, although it certainly includes postgraduate research work. The second subsection, Kenya, includes the bulk of the maps. They principally cover Shackleton’s surveying 1940-1945. He worked throughout Kenya producing reports for the Geological Survey of Kenya on the areas of Malikisi, North Kavirondo (1944), Nyeri (1945), Migori Gold Belt (1946), and Nanyuki and Maralal (1946). surrounding area. Section 1955 documents Shackleton’s service advising Liverpool D, Tryweryn Dam Consultancy, This subsection also includes maps of the Olorgesailie site and from the 1930s to the 1950s. The section is completed by composite panoramic photographs from Liverpool Corporation announced its intention to build a reservoir near Bala to assure There are a few figures from the 1950s and later relating to his ongoing work in Corporation on the geology of the site of the Llyn Celyn reservoir in Merionthshire, North Wales. maps, annotated by Shackleton. The majority are of Scottish sites and appear to have been used East Africa, particularly on the geology of the Rift Valley. Maps of Great Britain and Ireland comprise the third subsection. These are mostly Ordnance Survey six inch (1:2,500) and one inch (1:63,360) Liverpool Corporation. Parliamentary proceedings and Shackleton’s correspondence with J.H.T. Stilgoe, Water Engineer of Despite an opposition campaign headed by Welsh Nationalists, the dam building went ahead and the reservoir was opened in October 1965. The material includes reports, The plan was approved in 1956 and an enabling Act of Parliament was Liverpool's water supply. passed the following year. Tibet in the 1980s. In R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 LOCATIONS OF OTHER MATERIAL The British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham holds Shackleton’s field slips from North Wales, and a little other material. The Papers of Glynn LI. Isaac, at the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA, include Shackleton’s original drawings and sections from Olorgesailie, Kenya. For more information see A.3. T.E. Powell Bath December 2007 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL Obituaries M. Coward, Independent, 19 May 2001; M. Casey, The Reporter, University of Leeds, 4 June 2001; B.E. Leake, Geological Journal vol. 38 (2003). 2001-2007, n.d. 2001, 2003 by ‘Robert Millner Shackleton 30 December 1909-3 May 2001' Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society vol 50 (2004), 285-297 J.F. Dewey and B.E. Leake, Information on held elsewhere location of Shackleton archive material ‘Bungalow Prints wanted’. Wallet so inscribed. Three negatives of photographs of ?family holidays R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 SECTION B NOTEBOOKS, B.1-B.171 1929-1996, n.d. Nearly all the notebooks are labelled or inscribed on the tile the catalogue entries. are reproduced These titles spine. or in B.1-B.148 MAIN SEQUENCE B.149-B.158 FIJI NOTEBOOKS B.159-B. 167 UN-NUMBERED NOTEBOOKS B.168, B.169 S. MARCHANT’S NOTEBOOKS a WAC = a Al INDEX B.1-B.148 MAIN SEQUENCE 1929-1995 of It sequence Shackleton’s cross-sections All are pocket-sized and most have hard covers. Many bear evidence of use in the field: water-stained pages, dirt marks, and general wear and tear. They contain field notes, of There may also be the occasional portrait specimens. inscription and (generally the catalogue entries. sketch. or numbered _ field This to 148, covers Shackleton’s notebooks, running from 1 geological fieldwork from 1929 to 1988. The numbering is not chronological and some of the enumeration may date from after the notebook was used. The sequence is not complete, a number of notebooks were missing including 2-8, 11-13 and 70-72. is hoped that these notebooks will be located so gaps have been left in the catalogue accordingly. B15: The day Dating in the notebooks cannot be relied upon. of the month and year do not always correspond and occasionally the decade is wrong, eg. [19]67 for [19]76 in At B.170 is a card index box listing the notebooks and the geographical locations covered. note cover) landscape A front is given in on spine of title and sketches, maps, lists R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘R.M.S. 1 Carnedds’ 1929, 1930, n.d. notes includes Also of Radstock district, Somerset; notes on N.L. Bowen’s Evolution of Igneous Rocks and other notes on the literature. Used at the back for list of specimens 1-263. strata on The Carnedds are a mountain group in Snowdonia. The range includes Moel Hebog, the subject of Shackleton’s Ph.D. thesis. ‘RMS 9 Kenya (1)’ The notebook is also labelled ‘Kenya 1946 Kariandusi Kinangop’ and ‘Kariandusi Kinangop |’. Work August-September. ‘RMS 10 Kenya (2)’ The notebook is also labelled ‘Kenya 1946 Kariandusi Kinangop II Nairobi-Cairo’. Work September. ‘RMS 17 Ireland’ and inside 1951-1952 ‘RMS 14 Kenya (6)’ Most of the notes are on Macalder Mine. ‘RMS 15 Kenya (Macalder)’, front cover ‘Notebook RMS 15 (Kenya 7)’ and ‘Kenya Jan 1951 a) Notes on flight over Turkane b) Macalder Mi’ Work in Counties Wexford, Laois and Offaly. Observations start at ‘225’ suggesting this continues work begun in notebook 16 (not found at time of cataloguing). ‘RMS 18 Ireland’ and inside front cover ‘IRELAND III’ Work in County Wicklow. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Observations start at ‘320’. ‘RMS 19 Ireland’ and inside front cover ‘R.M. Shackleton. J.C. Harper’ Sections taken at Derrymore Glen, County Kerry. ‘RMS 21 Ireland (6)’ Work in Counties Donegal and Mayo, March-April. ‘RMS 22 Ireland’ Work in Counties Mayo and Donegal, July-August. ‘RMS 23 Ireland (8)’ Work in County Donegal, March-May. ‘RMS 24 Ireland’ and ‘Donegal Sheets 17, 18. April 1949’ ‘RMS 28 Fiji (1949) 1’ and ‘[...] Navua Gorge’ ‘RMS 25 Ireland’ and inside front cover ‘Ireland 1949’ 1949, 1950 Only a few pages at beginning and end of notebook used, for work in County Donegal. Work in Counties Waterford and Mayo, 1949, August 1950. Work July-August. Work in Sperrin Mountains (County Derry) and County Donegal August 1951; County Donegal 1953, July 1954, August 1956, 1966. ‘RMS 26 Ireland’ and ‘Ireland 1951, 1953, 1954’ 1951-1966 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 29 ‘RMS Namuamua [?] Suva - Tam[?avua]’ (1949) and Fiji 2’ ‘[...] Traverses from Work August. ‘RMS 30 Fiji (1949) 3’ and ‘Nuku trav[erse]. Wainikovu- Wainivadf...]. Namuamua-Sabata’ Work August. ‘RMS 31 Fiji (1949) 4’ Work around Namuamua, August. lists of photographs taken. Includes expenses, ‘RMS 32 Fiji (1949) 5’ and ‘Waibogi’ Work August. and area, 1950; ‘RMS 35’ Arran and ‘RMS 34' 1950-1951 ‘RMS 33 Highland border Sections from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, to River North Dunkeld, Esk Perthshire, March-April 1951. work on Work in the Lleyn Peninsula, North Wales, the Lizard, Cornwall, and Sutherland. Work May. Includes work in Aberdeenshire; Counties Donegal and Mayo, August 1947; Charnwood, Leicestershire, June 1948; Port-na-Blagh, County Donegal, September 1948. At back is draft ?report of meeting. 1947-1948 ‘37 Lleyn’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Includes notes on specimens. ‘RMS 38 Ireland’ Work in Counties Antrim and Donegal. ‘RMS 39 Scotland’ 1951-1952 Work in various locations in Scotland, August 1951, Easter 1952. Paginated, with list of contents at front. ‘RMS 41 Kenya’ and ‘Nairobi District I’ Work January-February, November. Paginated with index at front. ‘RMS 43 Kenya’ and ‘Olorgesailie (1) 1946’ material intercalated includes ‘RMS 42 Kenya’ and ‘Nairobi District Il Sheet 51 Nyeri area, sheet 43)’ (also 1944, 1945 Work October-November 1944, January 1945. Olorgesailie was the name given to a group of Acheulean sites in Kenya. Shackleton’s Loose personal notes on work done, work in hand and future plans. Work December. ‘RMS 45 Kenya’ and ‘Kenya 1947. Magadi & S. of Ngong’ ‘RMS 44 Kenya’ and ‘Olorgesailie (2) 1946’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘RMS 47 Anglesey’ 1949-1955 Work in Anglesey December 1949; Liverpool Geological Society Easter vacation excursion 1951; January 1952; Easter vacation expedition March 1954; August 1955. ‘RMS 48’ Paginated with index at front. Work in 1951-1952. Fiji, Hawaii, 1949; the UK (Arran, Anglesey etc), ‘RM Shackleton 49 Scotland’ Paginated with index at front. 1949, 1951- 1952 1952-1953 in Work Perthshire (Dunkeld). Stirlingshire (Ben Lui, Aberfoyle etc) and ‘RM Shackleton 50 N. Wales & Local’ Work June-November 1952, May, August 1953. ‘Local’ refers to Alderley Edge, Cheshire. ‘RM Shackleton 51 Morocco’ Work September-October. Paginated with index at front and loose notes intercalated at back of notebook. 1952, 1953 Work in Ayrshire (Girvan) and Dumfries and Galloway, April. ‘RMS 53 Ireland’ and inside front cover ‘Ireland (Donegal) 1953’ ‘RMS 52’ See C.71. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Work March-April. ‘54 Scotland’ 1953, 1954 Paginated with index at front. Work in Perthshire and southern Highlands, June 1953, May 1954. ‘55 Fanad’ and ‘Notebook 55 Fanad Letterkenny and Malin Head’ 71954, 1956, 1957 Work in County Donegal. ‘Notebook 56 Scotland’ 1954-1956 Paginated with index at front. Includes work in the Highland border region, June 1954, April 1955, April-May 1956. Work at Dolanog, Tryweryn and other sites. ‘59 Spain 1955’ Paginated with list of contents at front. Work in Asturias and the Pyrenees, July 1955. ‘Notebook 58 N. Wales Dam Sites’ 1955x1965 This work relates to Shackleton’s consultancy in respect of the Tryweryn Dam and Reservoir 1955-1965. See section D. the usual brief notes and sketches. ‘Notebook 60 Anglesey’ and inside front cover ‘Field book 60. Anglesey March 1955’ The initial entries are more in the form of an account than R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Anglesey’ ‘61 and Anglesey Aug. 1955’ inside front cover ‘Notebook 61 1955, 1978 Also includes notes on Bangor and Dolanog (borehole logs). At end of the Welsh notes are brief notes on work in Devon and Cornwall May 1978. ‘[...] 62 Spain’ and inside front cover ‘Notebook 62 Spain 1956 Galicia’ 1956, 1971 Also used from page 91 for notes 19771. Paginated with list of contents at front. ‘63 North Wales’ and inside front cover ‘North Wales 1956 on’ 1956, 1957 Paginated with list of contents at the front. ‘64 Bray Ser; Scotland. Fanad. Ethiopia 1970’ 1956, 1957, 1970 ‘65 Ireland’ ‘Egypt 66’ and ‘Notebook 66 Egypt’ Work in Counties Wicklow, Galway and Donegal. Work in Counties Wicklow and Donegal, Ireland, 1956 and 1957; Schiehallion 71957; Ethiopia, October 1970. Used for notes on work in Ireland, September 1948; ‘Interview with ESSO geologists’, Rome December 1948; work in Egypt, December 1948-January 1949. 1948-1949 Includes work in Kharga, with ‘Conclusions’ suggesting Shackleton’s principal research was in connection with the water supply to Kharga and the eastern Libyan Desert. ‘Notebook 67 ‘Aswan. Jan 18- 1949’ Egypt: Aswan’ and inside front cover At back is list of specimens. other oases in R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘Notebook 68 Egypt’ Work at Barramiya, eastern 1949. Egypt, January-February of specimens at Lists photographs at back. front and middle, and list of ‘N. Wales 1958 69’ and inside front cover ‘Notebook 69 N. Wales 1958- Tryweryn. Hebog’ 1958, 1961 Includes work relating to Shackleton’s consultancy in respect of the Tryweryn Dam and Reservoir 1955-1965. See section D. At back are ?Geological excursion. notes and loose list of participants on ‘73 Scotland’ 21962, 1963 Paginated with list of contents at the front. Includes work Yorkshire. in Ballachullish, Argyll and Austwick, ‘Notebook 75 Spain 1960’ Paginated with index on first page. ‘74 Alps’ and inside front cover ‘Alps 1958’ Includes notes on Swiss and Italian Alpine areas. 1967 Work in County Donegal 1958, Ulster April 1961, Horton June 1967. ‘Notebook 77 Malin Head’ and inside front cover ‘Ireland 1958’ Work August-September. 1958, 1961, R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘Wales (Cambrian) 78’ and ‘Dinorwic’. Work March. ‘79’ and inside front cover ‘Notebook 79 Garvellachs’ 21956, 1969 Work in the Inner Hebrides: the Garvellachs, Scarba and Lunga May 71956; Jura August 1969. ‘80 Spain 1962’ and inside front cover ‘Galicia’ Paginated with index inside front cover. Work August. ‘Leeds Local’ and inside front cover ‘81. Local-Leeds’ Work October. Shackleton was appointed Professor of Geology at Leeds in 1962. Work August-September. ‘R.M.S. 84’ and inside front cover ‘Scotland June 1963’ Paginated with list of contents at front. Work in Argyll and Bute. Paginated with list of contents inside front cover. ‘83. Scotland 1963-5’ 1963, 1965 Work in Argyll and Bute (Loch Awe area), June 1963, 1965. At back are lists of films taken. ‘Notebook 85 Africa 1963. Uganda Kenya N. Rhodesia S. Rhodesia’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘Notebook Mauretania Denbighshire Khartoum/Athens’ Vredefort Malawi 86 Kenya Anglesey 1963, 1969, 1970 work Chiefly 1963. Denbighshire 1969, Sudan 1970 are brief. Africa September-October The notes on Anglesey, Mauretania ?1970, southern in Inside front cover ‘Notebook 87 Tryweryn Pen-yr-Orsedd’ 1962, 1963 Inside front cover ‘Notebook 88 [...] North Apennines May 1965 NW Donegal with WSP 1965 Leeds students - W. Sharpe 1965 Central Donegal with WSP March 1966 Connemara 1969 SE Ireland ReC 1969’ 1965-1969 ‘Notebook 89 West Africa 1965’ Includes work in Sierra Leone and Ghana, ?notes on proceedings of geological conference. March-April. Inside 1965’ Work September. Inside front cover ‘Notebook 91 Rhodesia 1965’ front cover ‘Notebook 90 Rhodesia (Urungwe) Includes notes on proceedings of geological conference; LGA [?Liverpool Geological Association] excursion May 1965; work in Rhodesia August 1965. With itinerary for 4-26 September 1966 inside front cover. ‘Notebook 93 Tanzania 1966 with McFarlane (Serengeti) & with J.V. Hepworth’ ‘Notebook 92. Cyprus Ethiopia Uganda Malawi Tanzania’ Work May, August-October. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Inside front cover ‘Notebook 94’ and on first page, with list of contents ‘[...] Ghana 1968 Ingleton Schiehallion 1970’ 1968, 1970 Work in Ghana January-March 1968; Schiehallion, July 1970. Ingleton, n.d.; Paginated. front cover ‘Notebook 95’ Inside ‘Notebook 95 1968. Ghana’ and on first page Work in Ghana and Nigeria, April. 96. Saudi Arabia Uganda Kenya Notebook ‘1968 Tanzania’ Work July-August. on of conference in ‘1968 Notebook 97. Tanzania Malawi Ethiopia’ subtitled ‘Dodonna-Manyoni-ltiqi’, in Work August-September. Tanzania ‘Notebook 99 Scotland (1965, 1972) Kenya (Kindaruma)’ Notes Puturia, India; work in Uganda. July-August. proceedings geological ‘Notebook Uganda 1969’ and inside front cover ‘Puturia conference. Uganda’ mining problems. Work in Scotland December 1965-July 1967 and ‘4th year Easter Field 1967. Includes Shackleton’s ‘Conclusions - Preliminary’ on work in Kenya. Shackleton appears to have visited Kenya to advise on Incomplete pagination with list of contents at front. Trip 1972’, and Kenya July 1965-1967, 1972 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘Notebook 100. Egypt 1963/4 Libya Schiehallion’ 1963-1964 Chiefly used for notes on geology. the literature on Egyptian ‘Notebook 101 Schiehallion area’ The notebook bindings have come apart and process the pages disorganised. in the ‘Notebook 102 Ethiopia Devon + Cornwall Fell (1971) Anglesey (1973) Devon & Conrwall 1980’ & Cox 1971, 1973, 1980 Work in Cornwall March-April Anglesey March 1973. Ethiopia January-February 1971; Devon and 1980; November 1971 and ‘Notebook 103 Africa - Afar, Ethiopia 1970’ Work November-December. 105 Africa 1972 Swaziland ‘Notebook Botswana Vredefort Kariba’ Work in Scotland November 1968; Channel Islands April 1974: Ireland (County Mayo) June 1977. ‘Notebook 104 Scotland Eriska Banffshire Lewisian 1970 Field Class. S England Channel Islands 1974. Ireland 1977’ and inside front cover ‘Oct 1968 with J. Treagus [...] 1974-1975 At back are notes, possibly for general study of African and Middle East geology. ‘106’ and Adrian Phillips) 1974 India (will Bill Fyfe) 1974’ front cover ‘Wisconsin inside Work November-December 1974, April 1975. Paginated with index inside front cover. Mayo (with Rhodesia R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘Notebook 107 Stockport Charnwood, Church Stretton’ Includes record of February. trial boring at Stockport, Cheshire, ‘Notebook 108 Scotland Outer Hebrides Balmacara Glen Strae’ Includes many sketches - of dancers, baby, landscapes - and two watercolours. ‘Notebook 109 May 1967. Socotra Abd el Kuri S. Arabia’ ‘110 Peru 1975’ Used at the front for notes on ?conference proceedings, work in Atico area of Peru. January-February. Inside front cover ‘112’ 1973, 1974, 1977 Work in northern Spain (Cantabria, Asturias, July-August. ‘113 S Africa (Rhodesia Botswana SW Africa Transvaal 1975 Inside front cover ‘Notebook 111 Brittany Field Trip 1973 Brittany 1974 Spain 1974 Brittany 1974 Spain & Portugal 1977 August-September 1975. S.Africa [114] ‘Localities 483-772’ Work in the Transvaal August 1975; northern Spain Work July-August. 1975’ and Galicia), 1975 Spain & Portugal R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘115 France 1975 Brazil 1975 Sudan 1976’ 1975-1976 Work in France 1975, January 1976. Brazil November 1975, Sudan ‘116 1972 Kindaruma Transvaal & Botswana. Brittany Anglesey. 1976 Egypt’ 1972-1976 Work in Kindaruma, Kenya, 1972; Anglesey May 1973; Brittany July 1973; South Africa July-August 1973; Egypt October 1976. ‘417 Tanzania 1977’ Work March. ‘118 Brittany 1970’ Work July. ‘120’ Work in October. Brazil, mainly east coast region, September- Paginated with list of contents inside front cover. July ‘119 Cantabria 1976 S.W. England 1976 1979 1980’ 1976-1980 Work in Cantabria, Spain June-July 1976, Devon and Cornwall October 1976, 1978, November 1979, November 1980. Work October-November. Paginated with list of contents inside front cover. Inside front cover ‘Notebook 121’ and ‘Brazil 2’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 ‘122 Saudi Arabia Oman’ Larger format notebook. 1978, 1980 Work in Saudi Arabia and Oman, February 1978; Oman December 1980. ‘423 Devon & Cornwall 1978 and ‘SW England’ Chiefly work in Cornwall, May. ‘124 Kariba Salisbury Lusaka’ 1971-1972 Work in Rhodesia and Zambia, related to Kariba North and South Banks schemes. Chiefly borehole logs. Also includes drafts of letters from Shackleton re results of his surveying and detailed notes on previous reports. The North Bank Scheme was the construction hydroelectric power station. of a L125, 1980, 1983 Paginated with index inside front cover. Work in the United Arab Emirates and Sudan, January- February 1980; Connemara, Ireland, May 1983. 1981, 1992 Paginated with incomplete list page. of contents on second ‘427 Tanzania 1981’ March-April 1981, May 1992. ‘126 Spain 1980 Locfation]s 901-916’ Work in ?Galicia, August. ‘128 Tibet 1980’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Work May-June. ‘130 Egypt 1979’ Work in Qena region of Egypt, January-February. Includes later notes added in square brackets. ‘131 Egypt 1979 1980 Cyprus 1979’ 1979, 1980 First pages headed ‘Egypt 1979 II’. Work in Eastern Desert, and February-March 1980; Cyprus, March-April 1979. Egypt, February-March 1979 ‘132 Kenya 1981’ Work in eastern Kenya, February-March. 1980 Shetland 1980 Durham 1981 1980, 1981 ‘133 Scotland Shetland 1981’ Work in south eastern Egypt, March. Paginated with list of contents inside front cover. 135). Work in Nanjin and Guyang areas in China, November-December 1982; north-east Oman, January 1983 (the list of locations continues those in notebook ‘Notebook 136 China 1982 Oman 1983 (loc[ation]s 232- 353’ Paginated with list of contents inside front cover. 1982, 1983 ‘Notebook 134 Egypt 1982’ ‘Notebook 135 S. Oman 1982’ Work January-February. Beijing, R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 At back of notebook are Shackleton’s notes of topics, possibly for future research/publications. ‘Notebook 137 Oman 1983’ and inside front cover ‘Huaf- Haushi area locs 352-382 NE Oman locs 380-452 Huaf- Haushi (helicopter) locs 453-560’ Continues from notebook 136. Oman November-December. recorded, one There are two visits to another and February-March Larger format notebook. ‘Notebook 138 Pakistan 1983’ Work in August. North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, Larger format notebook. Work ‘Notebook 139 Oman 1984’ ‘Notebook 140 Newfoundland Melange Conf. 1984’ Continues from notebook 137, locations 563-970. chiefly in ?central Oman, January-February. Chiefly notes taken during Geological Society of America Penrose Conference excursions, June 1984. ‘Notebook 141 Oman 1985 [Locations] 1134-1277 R1- 25%, Society/Academia Sinica sponsored geotraverse of the Work February-March. Possibly continues from notebook 139 (but lacks records of locations 971-1133). This and the following two notebooks were compiled by Shackleton Royal two-month part ‘Notebook 142 Tibet 1985/1’ Work in southern Tibet, June. as of a R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Tibetan plateau. ‘143 Tibet 2 1985’ Work June-July. ‘144 Tibet 1986’ Work in eastern and southern Tibet, September. ‘146 Morocco 1983’ Chiefly work in September. Taza, Fez and Chefchaouen areas, ‘147 Scotland Portugal 1985’ 1985, 1995 Work in Ballachulish, Argyll, March 1985; Portugal, May 1985; Natal, South Africa, May 1995. 1988, 1990 1988; Oman, January At back edition of tectonic map of Africa. article, draft is possibly to accompany new At back is list of planned future geological work. Ireland, Oman, Tanzania’ and inside front cover ‘148 ‘Ireland 1988 Oman 1990 Tanzania 1990’ Work in County Donegal April 1990; Tanzania, August 1990. Some have had pages cut or torn out. This sequence of numbered notebooks running from | to X, covers Shackleton’s work in Fiji, November 1935- August 1936, as Chief Geologist to Whitehall Exploration Ltd. Tne notebooks bear considerable evidence of having been used in the field, with scribbled text and extensive water damage that has rendered many pages illegible. B.149-B.158 FlJI NOTEBOOKS 1935-1936 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 The sequence lacks notebook IX. notebook will be located so a gap has been left catalogue accordingly. is hoped that this in the It ‘Fiji? 1935-1936 Used November 1935-January 1936. Locations 1-492. ‘Fiji AD Used from January 1936. Locations 493-869. ‘Fiji UP Locations 884-1133. ‘Fiji IV’ Locations 1138-1478. 1935-1936 ‘Fiji V’ ‘Fiji VI ‘Fiji VIP Used ca May. Locations 1496-1717. Locations 1726-1845, 1892-2099, 3001- Used ca June. 3[0]49. See B.155 for locations 1849-1891. Used at the front for notes November 1935, thereafter At the front this notebook was used as a more formal record of work 21 December 1935-5 May 1936. Entries from June are more scrappy and record locations 1849- 1891 and 3949-4047. ‘Fiji VIP 1935, 1936 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 from August 1936 to record locations 4060-4373 (with later corrected numbering up to 4571). ‘Fiji X’ Used ca July-August. 4908. Locations 3850-4252 and 4578- B.159-B.167 UN-NUMBERED NOTEBOOKS 1929-1996, n.d. ‘South Africa Intl Geol. Congress 1929’ 1929 Pocket notebook used for record of travel to South Africa, notes of conference excursions, lists of specimens and photographs and accounts. July-August. Shackleton attended the Congress held in Pretoria, South Africa, while still undergraduate. International Geological an 15th notebook used for work in Kenya, ‘Sheet 44’ Softback February-March. field S. Kavirondo March 1944. Gem Sept ‘Miscellaneous |. 1944 Kitere Dec 1944’ Softback field notebook used for work in Kenya, March- November. Lacks covers. Most pages missing. Loose leaf sketchbook, lacking original binding. annotated map of section of Islay. ‘Brittany Sept. 1972 Crozon area’ ‘Islay (1956)’ Includes R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Pocket notebook ?1970s Lacks covers. Used for work in Spain and Portugal. Conference notebook for ‘The Fourth IGCP 348 (The Mozambique and related belts) Field Meeting in Ethiopia and Eritrea March 15-25, 1996’ Used for notes on proceedings and excursions. ‘R.M. Shackleton Specimens 1-[1949, original entry inked out]’ Used for recording specimens 500-1949, although many numbers have no specimen listed. Pages from notebooks found loose 1932, 1949, n.d. B.168, B.169 S. MARCHANT’S NOTEBOOKS used by in the Geology Department, Inscribed on first page ‘Field Book I’ Marchant University of Birmingham. based was Marchant for work in Ireland, July-September Two notebooks S. Connemara, County Galway, 1950. Paginated with detailed index on first and last pages. Continues in B.169. from B.168. Paginated with detailed index on last page. Continues Notebook II R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 B.170, B.171 Notebooks, B.1-B.171 Card index to field notebooks This contains cards listing Shackleton’s main sequence of field notebooks (B.1-B.148) in reverse chronological order. It includes entries for notebooks not found. Lists of Shackleton’s notebooks arranged by region or country These lists do not record notebooks missing from the main sequence at B.1-B.148, so were probably compiled later than the card-index at B.170. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 SECTION C MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, C.1-C.108 early 1930s- 21984 C.1-C.9 ‘MOEL HEBOG THESIS ETC’ C.10-C.51 KENYA C.52-C.107 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND C.108 TIBET ‘MOEL HEBOG THESIS ETC’ early 1930s, n.d. Shackleton’s Ph.D. was on the geology of Moel Hebog in North Wales. He returned to the area later in his career and this material may come from a number of visits. of 3 folders. early 1930s features and early 1930s Manuscript map of area Photographs samples (different sizes). Some idenfied on verso. landscape, geological Letter from W.G. geological work in North Wales ‘Photos Moel Hebog’. Contents of Shackleton’s envelope so inscribed: photographs from Moel Hebog early 1930s ‘Carnavonshire Contents of Shackleton’s envelope so inscribed ‘Hebog envelope so inscribed struct. - Traced maps, etc. Shackleton’s Fearnsides, 3 March, referring to Contents of Tracings etc’. [sic] - Moel Hebog maps’. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 letter from Includes Hebog fossils donated to Sciences by Shackleton. C.D.R. Evans referring to Moel of Geological the Institute Print-out of list of ‘Cambrian and Ordovician fossils from the Moel Hebog area, Snowdonia, in the R.M. Shackleton Collection’ by A.W.A. Rushton and S.P. Tunnicliff lacks pages 2-6. Incomplete, attached of ‘Localities wanted’. With manuscript note ‘Hebog area Spare 6". WGF[earnside]’s Ffestiniog map’. Contents of Shackleton’s envelope so inscribed C.10-C.51 Mary the for and Kenya the Kenyan Mining and reports for 1942 the producing throughout and site. Mary 1947 Shackleton collaborated with L.S.B. and Geological archaeologist During the Second World War Shackleton was seconded Department to undertaking a strategic mineral survey. He surveyed widely the the areas of Malikisi, Geological Survey of Kenya on North Kavirondo (1944), 12), Migori Gold Belt (1946, Report no 10), and Nanyuki and Maralal (1946, Report no 11). Nyeri (1945, Report no In Leakey discovered human artefacts (mainly hand tools) at Olorgesailie, an Acheulean (lower Palaeolithic) site southwest of Nairobi. Leakey Between 1942 excavated the the Leakeys’ investigations by mapping the Olorgesaile site. He prepared a 1:10,000 scale coloured geological map of the area around the Olorgesailie site and a geological map of Ngong an archaeological conference in (1:50,000 scale) Nairobi organised by L.S.B. Leakey. These maps were only later published, in 1978. A few maps include other areas of East Africa. The bulk of the maps presented here date from the 1930s and or approximate date of the creation/publication of the map rather than its use by Shackleton, although in many cases the two may be identical. area between Olorgesailie The dates given refer to the date 1940s. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 For notebooks used in this period see B.9, B.10, B.14, B.15, B.41-B.45, B.160, B.161. C.10-C.42 ‘Kenya. Miscellaneous maps’. folder so inscribed Contents of large card 1913-1954 Mostly printed maps. Kenya General 3 pieces. Lake Tracing of Mozambique and Victoria, n.d.; ‘Provisional Geological Map of Kenya’ 1:1,000,000 (four sheets pasted together and fabric backed), 1941. round Kenya, map of mineral survey other n.d.; belts Rift Valley 2 pieces. 1941, n.d. 1939, n.d. Gilgil 1941; 7 pieces. 1:25,000, 1941-1945, Map of Central part of the Rift Valley, from Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 95 (1939) mounted on hardboard; section of eastern flank of the Rift Valley south of Nairobi (2 sheets) n.d. 1:50,000 map of Gilgil, 1945; 1:25,000 maps of Gilgil N.W. 1943, N.E. 1944, S.W. 1943 and S.E. 1944: Gilgil South Extension detailed manuscript (pencil and ink) map of ‘area [that] adjoins SE corner of 1:25,000 “Gilgil S. Extn” ’, n.d. n.d. The S.W. map is printed on verso of British copy of French map of Tannarive (Madagascar), 1:1,000,000; the N.W. map on verso of copy of map of Diego Suarez (Madagascar), 1:100,000. The S.E. and S.W. Gilgil maps bear heavy manuscript annotation by Shackleton. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 Kakamega 2 pieces. 1933, n.d. 1:62,500 map, 1933; photocopy of part of geological map partly hand-coloured, n.d. Kiahera Hill & Kathwanga Geological Geological Society, vol. 106 (1950). map from the Quarterly Journal of the Kitale 1:500,000 map. Legetet 2 pieces. Legetet, Malakisi ca 1944 structural Longonot including farm 1:50,000 map. ‘Sketch map of the limestone deposits, near Muhoroni’, 1:15,625; annotated ‘Sketch map of the Koru limestone deposit, boundaries around Legetet’ 1:15,625. sellotaped ‘Based on field work done in Nov-Dec 1943 Robert M. Shackleton Geologist’. ‘Schematic 1:125,000. 1:500,000 map, 1946; 1:125,000 annotated composite map photocopied comprising 1946, n.d. map of the Malakisi area’, Maralal 2 pieces. sections R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 together, n.d. See also C.28, C.33. Migori 3 pieces. ‘Geology of the Migori area (South Kavirondo)’ sheets | and Il, ‘Geologically surveyed between Sept 1940 & Sept 1942 by Robert M. Shackleton (Geologist)’, 1:125,000; ‘Geology of Makuru’, ‘Geologically and topographically surveyed by Robert M. Shackleton Geologist’, 1:125,000. Belt Sheet III Migori Gold the Mombasa 1:500,000 map. 1944, n.d. Mumas Nairobi Mount Kenya 4 pieces. ‘sketch map by Humphrey Slade Fabric backed map with extensive annotation, 1:250,000. Fabric-backed & Raymond Hook’ of Mount Kenya, ca 1:100,000, 1944; 1:250,000 map, 1944; Shackleton’s manuscript map of ‘North West side of Mt. Kenya’, 1:25,000, n.d.; fabric- backed map of area round Mount Kenya, 1:21,120, n.d. Outline sketch map of geological in Lake Naivasha area. 1:62,500 map, extensively annotated by Shackleton. Lake Naivasha R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 Nakuru-Njoro-Elmenteita Fabric 1:100,000. Annotated by Shackleton. geological backed map by GJ.H. McCall, Nanteddu (Rift Valley) Composite map comprising photocopied manuscript map sections sellotaped together. Annotated by Shackleton. Nanyuki and Maralal Provisional geological map, ‘Geologically surveyed by Robert M. Shackleton’, 1:250,000. See also C.19, C.33. Ndeiya 1:50,000 map. Negheli 1:500,000 map. Ngong Training Area, 1:50,00, annotated by Shackleton, n.d.; ‘Geological sketch map of the area south of Ngong’, hand-coloured and annotated, with note ‘1946 work in this area not yet plotted’, 1:50,000. Robert M. Shackleton’, 1:125,000. Provisional geological map, ‘Geologically surveyed by See also C.46. Ngong 2 pieces. Nyeri R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 Rumuruti, Maralal Composite map comprising photocopied manuscript map sections sellotaped together. See also C.19, C.28. Sekerr and Cherangani Manuscript geological map, ca 1:37,000. South Kavirondo Simplified geological map, 1:125,000. Uasin Gishu 1:250,000 map. 5 pieces. C.38-C.42 Figures for publication/s ‘Figure 1’ 3 pieces. Untitled maps and sections Maps and sections on photographic paper, tracing paper and photocopies. 5 pieces. ‘Figure 2’ 5 pieces. ‘Figure 3’ R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 ‘Figure 4’ 5 pieces. Other 8 pieces. ‘Olorgesailie Archaeological Reserve’. Contents of large card folder so inscribed. N.d., 1946, post 1958 4 pieces. Olorgesailie enclosed area sheet 1; Olorgesailie enclosed area sheet 2; Olorgesailie Prehistoric Reserve, key to colours used on 1:600 geological plan, by Shackleton, 1946; the Gregory Rift’, post-1958. of the Olorgesailie sector of Geol. ‘Fig |. Maps 5 pieces. 6 pieces. C.44, C.45 Sections 7 pieces. The first the geology of Olorgesailie Area 1:10,000 maps & sections’. Contents of large card folder so inscribed. Olorgesailie archaeological is signed ‘RM Shackleton Maps of reserve, 1:10,000. Aug 1946’. area Manuscript map of the Geology of the country between Olorgesailie and the Ngong Hills, by Shackleton, ca 1945, 1:50,000; ‘Area between Olorgesailie & Ngong’. Contents of large card folder so inscribed Six sections given as 1:100; one as 1:25,000 (horizontal). 1942, ca 1945-1946 manuscript Geological map of the R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 between Olorgesailie & Olesayeti by Shackleton, August 1946, 1:50,000; manuscript Geological sketch map of the area south of Ngong, 1945, 1:50,000; two parts of printed 1942 maps of Ngong area, annotated by Shackleton, 1:50,000; by Shackleton, 1:1,000 (in two parts). annotated Kariandus mine, map of See also C.31. ‘Macalder. Tracings of Cross Sections. Used in report sent to CDC Nov 1953’. Contents of card folder so inscribed. 1952-1953 Shackleton’s manuscript ‘Notes on cross-sections’; Core Log Sheet from Macalder-Nyanza Mines 1952; tracings of cross-sections. Ltd, C.48-C.51 Miscellaneous C.48 of by letter map of Magadi District, file so National Museum Contents of ‘Olorgesailie’. to Shackleton on his geological map of Olorgesailie, from T. History, Jorstad, Natural Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA, 26 June 1995; copy of map; Shackleton’s manuscript sections. inscribed: Printed annotated by Shackleton, 1:250,000 Manuscript map of Kariandusi archaeological site Shackleton Annotated ‘One of Leakey’s sites on E margin of Rift NE of Narnyuki. Leakey’s interpretation not confirmed’. Printed Shackleton, 1:1,000,000 geological annotated southern Malawi, Kenya, map of by R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 C.52-C.107 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1922-1956, n.d. 6 of inch envelopes the The bulk of this material, C.52-C.92, is the contents of Shackleton’s maps location or locations to which they inscribed with refer. an alphabetical order In some cases, where the envelope bears more information, it has been retained. Loose 1 inch Ordnance Survey maps used by Shackleton are presented at C.97-C.107. Many are annotated. These have been presented in by location. (1:2,500) the These maps appear to have been used chiefly over the period from the late 1930s to the 1950s. ‘Arran 6". Bute CCXLIX NE Sheeans Choc Dubh’ ‘Aberfoyle-Ben Ledi’ 2 folders. ‘Bute’ ‘Conway’ 3 folders. 7 folders. Tracings. C.55-C.61 ‘Catley-Dunkeld’ See also C.77-C.79. See also C.80, C.81. ca 1951 Aerial photographs (1946), with tracing paper overlays indicating geological features. ‘Dunkeld. Air photos & maps’ C.63-C.65 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 2 folders. ‘6" Forfar12 18’ ‘6" Forfar 13’ ‘Forfarshire’ and ‘Prosen Water Noranside-Glen Ogil’ ‘Girvan’ ca 1951 6 inch extensively Includes annotated and inscribed ‘B. Leake Liverpool ’Varsity 4th March 1951’. map of (1910), Girvan See B.52 7 SE 11 SW. Coast N. of & 16/3 taken Yr Civ. Eng. 1939 ‘Kincardineshire NE, Stonehaven (Skateraw, Muchalls)’ ‘6" Herefordshire Beacon’ and ‘3rd ICST’ ‘Kincardineshire 11 NW 19 NW’ and ‘16/1 out RMS 4/7/50’ Some of the maps bear detailed geological notes on verso. ‘Kincardineshire Stonehaven Coast Section & K16/1&3’ 15/SW, ‘Llanderfel W.A. Cummins? — Gelligrin RMS’ See also C.90. 16/NW, 14/SE. SE. SW R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 C.77-C.79 ‘North Bute & neighbouring part of Argyll’ 3 folders. See also C.55-C.61. G80G31 ‘Perthshire 62 NW, SW ‘(Dunkeld)’ 72 NE, SE 73 NW’ and 2 folders. See also C.62. ‘Perthshire 84 NW Craiglea’ ‘Perthshire 94 SW’ ‘6" Tryweryn’ See section D. C.85-C.92 ‘Ashover, Derbyshire Pt I. 1937 1938 1939’ ‘Miscellaneous 6" maps’. Contents of Shackleton’s folder so inscribed 1937-1946, n.d. The folder contained envelopes of 6 inch maps in similar format to those at C.52-C.84. with manuscript list of references and printed figure. C.89 is ‘Lineation and strike of the Lizard Rocks’, ?by Shackleton, manuscript rough draft and 4pp typescript, ‘Austwick 1946’ C.87-C.89 ‘6" maps Lizard’ 3 folders. R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 ‘Llandderfel area near Bala. A.D. Stewart & party’ Two of the maps bear detailed geological notes on verso. See also C.76. ‘N. Wales dam sites 6" maps Montgomeryshire. Dolanog & Banwy sites’ Includes 1:2,500 map of Dolanog. Llangadfan 6 inch maps sellotaped together, found loose. C.93-C.95 ‘Loch Awe inscribed Creran’. Contents of Shackleton’s folder so ca 1966 6 inch maps, tracings, most annotated by Shackleton, some dated 1966. 3 folders. One piece dated 1958. Contents 1958, n.d. C.97-C.107 Ordnance Survey maps ‘Miscellaneous Scottish maps (Unpublished)’. of envelope so inscribed These are printed one inch (1:63,360) maps, annotated by Shackleton. 1922-1956 The dates given refer to the publication date of the map rather than its use by Shackleton. Loch Linnie, sheet 46 Loch Etive & Glen Coe, sheet 54 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Maps and photographs, C.1-C.108 Killin and Loch Rannoch, sheet 55 North Jura and Firth of Lorne, sheet 60 Oban and Loch Awe, sheet 61 Loch Lomond, sheet 66 Island of Bute, sheet 71 Stranraer, sheet 90 Llandudno and Denbigh, sheet 42 Northern Montgomeryshire Site of possible dam noted. 2 pieces. Anglesey, sheet 106 Lhasa - Day 2’. Mounted composite panoramic photographs, with tracing paper overlay, inscribed ‘Grey volcanics [...] valley N.E. of R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 SECTION D TRYWERYN DAM CONSULTANCY, D.1-D.20 1955-1966 a of city had Liverpool In 1955 Liverpool Corporation announced its intention to build a reservoir near Bala in Merionethshire to ensure the sufficient water supply. Despite many objections, as the reservoir would drown the village of Capel Celyn and a number of hill farms, Liverpool Corporation approved the plan in 1956 and an enabling Act of Parliament was passed the following year. Despite a continued opposition campaign, headed by Welsh Nationalists, the dam building went ahead and the reservoir was opened in October 1965. It had the capacity to hold 16,400 million gallons of water. Shackleton advised Liverpool Corporation on the geology of the site. See also B.58, B.69, B.87, C.84. Correspondence from J.H.T. Stilgoe, Water Engineer of Liverpool Corporation re proposed boreholes Report. Proposed Upper and Members of the Water December 1955 the Committee Lower Dam Sites Seismic Survey’, Retained in original binding. ‘Premliminary Tryweryn Dam Site’ by Shackleton Geological ‘Report by Binnie, Deacon & Gourley, MMICE to Chairman Liverpool Corporation on a New Source of Supply’ ‘River Tryweryn, North Wales Water Supply Scheme - Upper and Soil Mechanics Ltd August 1956 ‘River Tryweryn, North Wales Water Supply Scheme V - Upper Dam Site Seismic Survey’, Soil Mechanics Ltd Retained in original binding. Retained in original binding. January 1956 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Tryweryn Dam Consultancy, D.1-D.20 ‘Site Investigation for the Upper Tryweryn Dam Site, North Bala, Merionethshire’, Soil Mechanics Ltd Scheme, Supply Wales Water Nr _ Retained in original binding. Correspondence from overflow plans and further geological investigations. Stilgoe J.H.T. re draw-off and ‘Liverpool Corpn - Tryweryn Bill’ March 1957 1957, 1958 Material including work on Tryweryn reservoir. relating to Liverpool Corporation Act, 1957, against Petition Liverpool Corporation asking for Shackleton’s opinon, April 1957, with proof of evidence given by Shackleton. letter from with the Bill Evidence to Select Committee, May 1957 re 2 folders. 1961-1963 Copy of the Act Correspondence with J.H.T. Stilgoe Includes letters arising from Shackleton’s site visits, borehole samples and reports on work in progress. ‘impossible to produce [his] final report’. Material from ‘Inauguration of Llyn Celyn (the regulating reservoir on the Afon Tryweryn)’ Brochure from ceremony; mounted colour photograph of the reservoir. Stilgoe replies to Shackleton’s news that he has found it Letter from J.H.T. Stilgoe to Shackleton re final report June 1966 R.M. Shackleton NCUACS 158/1/08 Tryweryn Dam Consultancy, D.1-D.20 ‘Notes on embankment design changes’ 3pp photostat. Drill hole logs D.18-D.20 ‘Tryweryn. Useful maps, plans’. Contents of Shackleton’s folder so inscribed: maps and plans of the reservoir site, borehole locations, etc 1955-1960s 3 folders.
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