scholarly journals Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation I. Origin and stratigraphy of Fenland deposits near Wooldwalton, Hunts II. Origin and stratigraphy of deposits in southern Fenland

1938 ◽  
Vol 229 (562) ◽  
pp. 323-406 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Marine Transgression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similar Character ◽  
Peat Stratigraphy

The fenland basin of East Anglia is a shallow depression centred round the Wash and filled with extensive post-glacial deposits of peat or of estuarine silt and clay. The alternation of these deposits, and changes in their character, are the record of a complex history of climatic alteration, marine transgression and regression, and of vegetational evolution. The Fenland Research Committee, founded in 1932, has for its object the elucidation of this history, which is of importance not only intrinsically, but in relation also to the post-glacial history of the adjoining margin of western Europe, to the history of human settlement in Britain, and to the theory of peat stratigraphy and vegetational history in this country. Results of intensive investigations at fenland sites of particular archaeological interest have already been published: they represent the correlated research of specialists in several sciences. The first paper dealing principally with peat stratigraphy and vegetational history was that of the present authors on the deposits at Wood Fen, near Ely (H. and M. E. Godwin and M. H. Clifford 1935). They now report the results of more extensive observations of similar character in another portion of the fenland basin where the deposits have a wider range of character and of age.

A Late Bronze Age Find near Stuntney, Isle of Ely

1940 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. D. Clark ◽  
H. Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Made In

For more than seven years the Fenland Research Committee has been investigating the post-glacial history of the Fenland with a view to correlating archaeological remains and recent geological deposits. By this means evidence has been collected which bears upon the age of early phases of human settlement in East Anglia and upon the natural conditions prevailing at different periods. It has sometimes been possible to undertake systematic and purposive excavations at key sites in the confident anticipation of definite results, but stray finds made in the course of drainage works or of agriculture have also played an important part. The Stuntney hoard, which it is the primary purpose of this report to record, was discovered by a man ploughing near Stuntney Hall in January 1939.

scholarly journals I.—Trogontherium from a Pleistocene Deposit in the Thames Valley

1902 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 385-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Newton
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Incisor Tooth ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Charles Lyell ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sandy Deposit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pleistocene Deposit

The history of this gigantic rodent began to be written in 1809, when M. Gothelf Fischer described a skull from a sandy deposit on the borders of the Sea of Azof, to which he gave the name of Trogontherium. Since then, at varying intervals, to the present time, new chapters have been added to this history by both Continental and British workers, describing specimens of a more or less fragmentary character which have from time to time been discovered. The English specimens have been chiefly obtained from the ‘Cromer Forest Bed,’ that rich and remarkable series of beds occupying a position in time between the Crags and the Glacial deposits of East Anglia. The ‘Forest Bed’ specimens were first made known by Sir Charles Lyell in 1840, but were more fully described by Sir R. Owen in 1846 and referred to Fischer's Trogontherium Cuvieri. It will not be necessary at this time to refer specifically to each of the additions to our knowledge of this animal or to detail the varying opinions as to affinities and nomenclature, as these particulars will be found in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. Although most of the British specimens of Trogontherium Cuvieri have been found in the ‘Cromer Forest Bed’ a few examples have been met with in the Norwich and Weybourn Crags. The smaller species, which has been called T. minus, was obtained from the nodule bed below the Red Crag of Felixstowe, and an incisor tooth from the Norwich Crag was referred to the same species.

Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation XIII. The meare pool region of the Somerset levels

1955 ◽  
Vol 239 (662) ◽  
pp. 161-190 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Marine Transgression ◽  
Raised Bogs ◽  
Atlantic Period ◽  
Roman Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Roman

In continuation of researches into the physiographic and vegetational history of the Somerset Levels, investigations have been made of the Meare Pool region using methods of field-stratigraphy, palynology and foraminiferal analysis. The historic Meare Pool is shown to have originated by encroachment of the growth of raised bogs round it, especially in the Sub-atlantic period. A marine transgression in late Roman time filled the Axe valley with clay which reached the landward side of the lake but cannot have been concerned with its origin. The vegetational history of the region is outlined and related to the occupancy of the Glastonbury and Meare Lake Villages and to the agricultural activity within the area from the Neolithic period to late Roman time.

The Ancient Cultivation of Hemp

Antiquity ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 41 (161) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Godwin
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Cannabis Sativa ◽  
Pollen Grain ◽  
Economic Plant ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Pollen Diagram ◽  
Indian Hemp ◽  
History Of ◽  
Archaeological Knowledge

The discovery in a long pollen diagram from East Anglia of a substantial curve for a pollen-grain referable to Cannabis sativa, L., the Indian hemp, raised the hope that we might, through palynology, have the means of tracing the history of cultivation of this important and sinister economic plant in England and in Western Europe. It was clearly essential that pollen-analytic evidence should be related fully to existing historical and archaeological knowledge, and aided by a notice in this journal (ANTIQUITY, 1964, 287), and by the notable kindness of a great many academic colleagues, I have put together a condensed historical account of the plant in antiquity as preface to a description of the pollen-analytic data.

scholarly journals Recent Glacial History of an Alpine Area in the Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.: II. Dating the Glacial Deposits

1968 ◽  
Vol 7 (49) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Colorado Front Range ◽  
Front Range ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rhizocarpon Geographicum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain Glaciation

AbstractRecent glacial deposits in the Indian Peaks area of the Colorado Front Range have been dated lichenometricaily, using a growth curve developed locally forRhizocarpon geographicum. Radiocarbon dates, where available, tend to support the lichen chronology. Three distinct intervals of glaciation, each consisting of several minor pulsations, have occurred in the area during the past 4500 years. The earliest advance (Temple Lake Stade) is dated at 2500–700 b.c. A later advance (Arikaree Stade) began in about a.d. 100 and ended in a.d. 1000. The most recent advance (Gannett Peak Stade) is dated at a.d. 1650–1850. It remains to be seen whether the Arikaree Stade was purely a local development or whether glaciers were advancing elsewhere in the cordilleran region during this interval. Alluviation on the plains east of the Colorado Front Range seems to have occurred during the waning stages of mountain glaciation.

scholarly journals Studies of the post-glacial history of British vegetation X. Correlation between climate, forest composition, prehistoric agriculture and peat stratigraphy in sub-Boreal and sub-Atlantic peats of the Somerset levels

1948 ◽  
Vol 233 (600) ◽  
pp. 275-286 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Forest Composition ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Prehistoric Agriculture ◽  
Surface Part ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Local Origin ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peat Stratigraphy

It has already been shown that the site at Decoy Pool Wood gives very good evidence of two flooding episodes, each demonstrated by vegetation of a eutrophic character, and each succeeded by drier conditions in which oligotrophic communities recovered the bog surface (part VIII). The pollen samples taken at intervals of only 1 in. (2*5 cm.) apart, yield a remarkable amount of information about the correlations of the two swamping horizons which they cross, and the alterations of climate, prehistoric agriculture and forest composition. It has already been shown that the pollen of local origin from plants growing on the bog surface reflects in detail the modification of the plant communities.

scholarly journals Recent Glacial History of an Alpine Area in the Colorado Front Range, U.S.A.: II. Dating the Glacial Deposits

1968 ◽  
Vol 7 (49) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Colorado Front Range ◽  
Front Range ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rhizocarpon Geographicum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mountain Glaciation

AbstractRecent glacial deposits in the Indian Peaks area of the Colorado Front Range have been dated lichenometricaily, using a growth curve developed locally for Rhizocarpon geographicum. Radiocarbon dates, where available, tend to support the lichen chronology. Three distinct intervals of glaciation, each consisting of several minor pulsations, have occurred in the area during the past 4500 years. The earliest advance (Temple Lake Stade) is dated at 2500–700 b.c. A later advance (Arikaree Stade) began in about a.d. 100 and ended in a.d. 1000. The most recent advance (Gannett Peak Stade) is dated at a.d. 1650–1850. It remains to be seen whether the Arikaree Stade was purely a local development or whether glaciers were advancing elsewhere in the cordilleran region during this interval. Alluviation on the plains east of the Colorado Front Range seems to have occurred during the waning stages of mountain glaciation.

The Glacial History of Western Europe

1910 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
T. G. Bonney
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
History Of
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