Fenland Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future

Name: Fenland Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future
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ISBN: 9780521103398

ISBN-10: 0521103398

ISBN-13: 9780521103398

Edition: 2009

Authors: Harry Godwin

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The features so characteristic of the Fenland, its flatness, its flooding, its vast stretches of silt land and black peat, its drainage channels, meres, buried forests, abundant water fowl and aquatic plants, its special crops, all relate to the special conditions in which the Fenland was formed and ultimately was taken over by man. This is the story, by one of the active participants, of how the researches of natural scientists, biologists, geologists, geographers, historians and archaeologists, over the last fifty years have, by active co-operation and the use of modern techniques, reconstructed Fenland history through the last 10,000 years and have provided fresh understanding both of…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.25" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Ecological background



Pollen analysis



Bog oaks and buried forests



Flandrian deposits and the Fenland Research Committee



Shippea Hill and the natural bed of the River Little Ouse



The Lower Peat and the Fen Clay



The Upper Peat: hoards and trackways



Iron Age hiatus, roddons and Romans



Extinct meres and shell-marl



Conspectus and historical framework



Peat and its winning



The loss of the peat: shrinkage and wastage



Fenland drainage



Ancient crops, natural and cultivated



Lost and vanishing species: conservation


References


Index