River Unica is a unique river, which is well known all around the world by its fascinating beauty, amazing mayfly hatches, big graylings and brown trouts. Legend of fly-fishing Edgar Pitzenbauer said it was one of his favourite rivers. Unica is a typical chalk stream which runs through unspoiled nature offering a great scenery and fly fishing.
River Unica is a unique river, which is well known all around the world by its fascinating beauty, amazing mayfly hatches, big graylings and brown trouts. Legend of fly-fishing Edgar Pitzenbauer said it was one of his favourite rivers. Unica is a typical chalk stream which runs through unspoiled nature offering a great scenery and fly fishing.
Chalk has played a major role in our prehistory in NW Europe. The Downs and Chalk highlands are thought to have been more intensely farmed and less wooded that the lowlands and their high permeability (quick drainage/lack of surface drainage) made them ideal for transport routes. These routes were still in existence in Medieval times (Saxon Way in Kent). Major prehistoric sites such as Stonehenge were built on Chalk. Chalk mines with shafts and adits were excavated by farmers to provide them with fertiliser.
The major prehistoric use was not of the Chalk itself, but of the flints within the Chalk, which are known to have been used as tools by prehistoric man (eg. Boxgrove Man) as long as 500,000 years ago. Flints are known to have been traded over long distances throughout Europe. Chalk caves were also important for shelter at this time.
When heated, the calcium carbonate in limestone decomposes to lime, or calcium oxide. This is both used in the making of cement, it is a fertilizer for farmland and as a flux in smelting copper and lead ores and in making iron and steel.
The Downs and Chalk highlands are thought to have been more intensely farmed and less wooded that the lowlands
and their high permeability (quick drainage/lack of surface drainage) made them ideal for transport routes.
These routes were still in existence in Medieval times (Saxon Way in Kent).
another unique river (and therefore the 85% British figure would appear to be intact). Find out what the unique bit is all about and we should be in business.
The Ljubljanica has become a popular site for archaeologists and treasure hunters to dive for lost relics and artifacts. Locations in the river between Ljubljana and Vrhnika have offered up pieces of history from the Stone Age to the Renaissance, belonging to a variety of groups, from local ancient cultures to more well-known groups like the Romans and the Celts. One of the more significant findings is a yew spearhead, found in 2009 in Sinja Gorica.
Exactly why the Ljubljanica became an article dumping ground is unknown, but most historians believe that it is related to how local tradition has always held the river as a sacred place. These treasures may have been offered "to the river during rites of passage, in mourning, or as thanksgiving for battles won."
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