Somerset's peatland archaeology managing and investigating a fragile resource : the results of the Monuments at Risk in Somerset Peatlands (MARISP) Project
The Somerset Levels and Moors are part of a series of coastal floodplains that fringe both sides of the Severn Estuary. These areas have similar Holocene environmental histories and contain a wealth of waterlogged archaeological landscapes and discrete monuments. The importance of Somerset's pr...
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Oxford
Oxbow Books
2013, 2013
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Project
- Methodology
- Trackways
- Platforms and Pile Alignments
- Lake Villages
- Medieval Causeway
- Preservervation and Environmental Change
- Research and Management Strategies
- Appendix 1: Key for habitat groups and scale of abundance for plant macrofossil analysis tables
- Appendix 2: Abbreviations for ecological codes and statistics used for interpretation of insect remains in text and tables
- Appendix 3: MARISP pollen assessment plates
- Appendix 4: MARISP plant macrofossil assessment figures
- Appendix 5: Troels-Smith stratigraphic descriptions