The executioners picked their location carefully, driving their victims to a dusty wadi about 2 miles from the nearest town, hidden from the road by a long, sloping, sandy ridge.
42.
Following a return to Sandy Ridge last summer to collect and date more fossils, Marincovich and a Russian co-author published their findings in the Jan . 14 issue of the journal Nature.
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On a sandy ridge by the River Owenreagh are the ruins of the old church and of a small square building sometimes called'the abbey', with sharply pointed gables which once supported a stone roof.
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Swann was born on the family plantation in Sandy Ridge, Tennessee to John and Sarah ( Austell ) Swann on September 24, 1843, and he was to live to be nearly eighty-three years old.
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With sandy ridges of low sclerophyll forest, there are also other vegetation types present of rainforest remnants, sheoak or " Casuarina " sp . forest stands, " Melaleuca " swamps, salt meadows, and mangrove stands.
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More than 100 apple trees _ some gnarled and thick at the trunk like an old ash, others mere saplings _ stood scattered on a sandy ridge between the maple forest and a dun-colored meadow.
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So the road would now terminate near a grassy clearing where the Lost River disappears under Sandy Ridge, just outside Wardensville, a tiny town of 200 residents and no traffic lights on the Virginia border.
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In 1921, graves were found north of Grenadier Pond on the sandy ridge, during the course of road construction near Harcroft and Olympus Avenue, then the Harcroft Bird Sanctuary of architect J . A . Harvey.
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Collins saw the large number of Indians coming his way and formed up his wagons and horses into a corral and put his soldiers to work digging rifle pits and establishing defense lines among the sandy ridges on the plain.
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The survey of the site showed that Nataruk was exceptional not only in the number of exposed remains, but also in their distribution throughout a large area of ~ 200 x 100 m, forming clusters along a sandy ridge and on two mounts.
