Feedback request: Rosa caesia (200705111004_4241)

[johnhawksford]

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Specimen #253054

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Rosa caesia Sm.
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Rosa caesia Sm.
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	8/1875
Locality:	Great Britain, VC111 Orkney, Russa Dale, HY3309, [Mainland, N of Ward Hill / Orphir] Below Slate Quarries
ex herb:	Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by johnhawksford on 10^th March 2008.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
11/03/2008	johnhawksford	Deleted locality: Mussadale, Below Slate Quarry.
11/03/2008	johnhawksford	Added locality: GB VC111 Russadale, Below Slate Quarry.
22/10/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC111 Russadale, Below Slate Quarry.
22/10/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC111 Russa Dale, [Mainland, N of Ward Hill / Orphir] Below Slate Quarry. HY335095 (place)
22/10/2011	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted collector: J T Boswell
22/10/2011	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added collector: Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
11/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC111 Russa Dale, [Mainland, N of Ward Hill / Orphir] Below Slate Quarry. HY335095 (place)
11/11/2013	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC111 Russa Dale, [Mainland, N of Ward Hill / Orphir] Below Slate Quarries HY3309 (place)
11/11/2013	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)
11/11/2013	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)
11/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 8/1878
11/11/2013	oldnick	Added collection date: 8/1875

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johnhawksford wrote

Name of site is unclear.

[Chris Liffen]

Looked at this for a while.
Think that if you look at the R on Rosa, then the place name begins with R - making Russadale, below slate quarries, Orkney.
Googling Russadale and Orkney, gives the Orkney Biodiversity Action Plan which refers to Russadale quote
"More sites are managed by occupiers’ participation in the Orkney Native Tree Project, including substantial areas in Hoy and at Rossmyre and Russadale". It does not, however, appear on Google maps or the OS Gazetteer.
See what you think!
Chris
ps other sheets have the collector travelling around the Islands.

[johnhawksford]

I'm sure that you are correct, in every respect, Chris. Many thanks. John.

[oldnick]

HY335095 - Mainland, N of Ward Hill / Orphir - have edited in