Evidence for the Flandrian history of the Wooler water, Northumberland, provided by pollen analysis

Clapperton, Chalmers M.; Durno, S. E.; Squires, R. H.

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“…However, despite the basin having substantial accumulations of fluvial sediments (Payton, 1980) there has been no published attempt to analyse the chronology of alluviation in the Late Quaternary. Clapperton et al (1971) demonstrated that mid-late Holocene fluvial aggradation near the basin could be highly significant, and this was confirmed for the Cheviots by Tipping (1992Tipping ( , 1994a and for the Fell Sandstones near Rothbury by Macklin et al (1991). Tipping's work in the Cheviots concentrated on highgradient, gravel-rich mountain streams exhibiting high levels of channel migration and avulsion (cf.…”

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“…The Wooler Water at this point is bordered to the west on the lower slopes of the Cheviots by fluvio-glacial gravels. To the east a broad (500 m wide) fluvial gravel terrace, the Haugh Head Terrace (Clapperton et al's (1971) 'gravel plain') was incised some 18 m below the surface of the fluvioglacial deposits before c. 3 m of coarse bouldery gravels were aggraded (Tipping, 1994d). The Haugh Head Terrace is dated to some time in the Late Devensian.…”

Section: Loch Lomond Stadial Channel-trenchingmentioning

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“…The archaeological record is particularly rich, and has been analysed by excavation and field survey (Burgess, 1984;Gates and O'Brien, 1988;Harding, 1981;Hope-Taylor, 1977;Miket, 1976Miket, , 1981. The vegetation history of the basin and the surrounding hills has been reconstructed in varying detail (Borek, 1975;Clapperton et al, 1971;Davies and Turner, 1979;Turner, 1968;Tipping, 1992). However, despite the basin having substantial accumulations of fluvial sediments (Payton, 1980) there has been no published attempt to analyse the chronology of alluviation in the Late Quaternary.…”

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The chronology of Late Quaternary fluvial activity in part of the Milfield Basin, northeast England

Tipping

1998

Earth Surf. Process. Landforms

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The sediment stratigraphy of a 4 m thick intercalated Holocene alluvial fill and valley floor peat at a site in the Milfield Basin, Northumberland, has been dated by a series of eight 14C assays, and related to a previously analysed pollen record. The sequence extends from the earliest Holocene until c. 2800 cal. BP. Prior to the onset of peat inception, substantial amounts of channel‐trenching can be demonstrated to have occurred in the Milfield Basin during the Loch Lomond Stadial. There is no measurable early Holocene accelerated fluvial activity, but a major flooding event occurred at c. 7500 cal. BP, much earlier than recorded elsewhere in the region. The explanation for this is not clear. However, the cessation of mid‐Holocene overbank sedimentation at c. 4000–3500 cal. BP is tentatively correlated with slope stability associated with woodland regeneration. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The chronology of Late Quaternary fluvial activity in part of the Milfield Basin, northeast England

Tipping

1998

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“…On the southern margins of the Milfield Basin, Late Devensian and Holocene sedimentary sequences in the valley floor of the Wooler Water, upstream of Wooler, have been the subject of investigations by Clapperton et al (1971) and Tipping (1992;1994b;, while local channel and floodplain adjustments to recent historic aggregate extraction have also been reported by Sear and Archer (1998). On the western side of the valley an extensive spread of kame, esker and kettle hole deposits lie up to 175m OD and are truncated to the east by a broad gravel terrace, some 10m thick and 500m wide, that has been termed the Haugh Head Terrace (Tipping 1994b).…”

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Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

Passmore¹,

Waddington²

2012

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xxiv Zuasammenfassung xxv Samenvatting xxvi Sammenfatning xxvii Till Tweed Volume I Erratum xxviii Contents Part 1. Setting the Scene vii Contents Calibration The model for the start and end of the Neolithic The overlapping ceramics model Alternative: the abutting model The Milfield henge complex and related sites Taming of the land: transition or revolution? Settlement Post-built structures Neolithic pits Geography of Neolithic settlement in Northumberland Land use and subsistence Technology and material culture Ceramics Lithics Monumentalising the land Neolithic Chalcolithic 6.

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“…Little detail is known of the Lateglacial environments of the Northumberland coastline, although a few pollen records have been published from just inland at Wooler (Clapperton et al, 1971;Jones et al, 2000) and the Scottish Borders (Innes and Shennan, 1991). Studies on the Holocene evolution of the coastline have generally focused on the quantitative reconstruction of past relative sea-level rise, crustal movements and tidal changes as part of much wider-ranging investigations into the impact of postglacial sea-level rise in the UK (Shennan et al, 2000c).…”

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Holocene coastal change and geoarchaeology at Howick, Northumberland, UK

Boomer

Waddington²,

Stevenson

et al. 2007

The Holocene

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The recent discovery of one of the earliest Mesolithic occupation sites in northern Britain, at Howick on the Northumberland coast, in association with multiperiod archaeological evidence nearby, highlights the importance of UK coastal settings as focii of human occupation through the Holocene. Environmental evidence from a nearby river valley (8.15 m of sediment ranging in age from about 12 000 cal. BP to the present) records local and regional environmental change. Twenty-four radiocarbon dates based on plant macrofossils provide a strong chronological framework. Calcareous microfossil assemblages (foraminifera, ostracods) have been recovered from the fine-grained sediments, recording a change from marine through to brackish and eventually freshwater conditions between about 8200 and 6500 cal. BP. A preliminary pollen study of the core has permitted a reconstruction of the regional vegetation as it responded to climatic amelioration and human influence upon the landscape. Radiocarbon dating and sedimentological evidence indicates a major hiatus between approximately 11 000 and 8000 years BP (including the period of Mesolithic occupation), represented by a 30 cm layer of coarse sands and sandstone pebbles, probably the result of a significant high-energy event dated to about 8300 cal. BP. Although not a typical tsunami deposit, the age and context suggests that this may be associated with the Storegga Slide event, already well-documented along the eastern coast of Scotland. The sedimentary and biological remains at Howick record environmental change over much of the Holocene and are compared with other environmental change records from the region to provide an environmental framework for the archaeology of this coastline.

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Evidence for the Flandrian history of the Wooler water, Northumberland, provided by pollen analysis

Cited by 9 publications

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The chronology of Late Quaternary fluvial activity in part of the Milfield Basin, northeast England

The chronology of Late Quaternary fluvial activity in part of the Milfield Basin, northeast England

Archaeology and Environment in Northumberland

Holocene coastal change and geoarchaeology at Howick, Northumberland, UK

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