for the Isle of Man. Second success of the day, was Dan finding his kettlehole, perhaps not unexpected though given there are two on that stretch of coast with very similar stratigraphy. With the cosmogenic samples in the boot, Dave took his leave and departed for the UK.

Day 4 Thursday – the Central Valley, Kirk Michael and Orrisdale: With Dave gone, OSL sampling was very much to the fore. First up the Central Valley of the Isle of Man extending Peel in the west to Douglas in the east, where geomorphology shows moraine ridges arcing north and northeast indicating penetration of ice from the coast. The Ballaharra sand and gravel quarry shows a 12m sequence comprising basal 12-4m gently dipping fore-set planar sands and massive stratified gravels overlainof sampling on transect 3…..

Taking advantage of the improving weather and as the snows subside Rich Chiverrell and Matt Burke were joined by Derek Fabel and David Small (University of Glasgow) in getting the terrestrial sampling programme underway for BRITICE-CHRONO. The project a NERC-funded consortium that aims to constrain the rate of collapse of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. The project will employ a number of dating techniques – Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), Radiocarbon (14C), and Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclide (TCN) dating – in order to document the retreat of all major ice streams that drained the largely marine-based ice sheet. Terrestrial sampling along the Irish Sea East transect is now well underway after three days of intensive rock removal along the Mid-Cheshire Ridge for TCN dating. Although renowned