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The Archives of Peat Bogs (Paperback)
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The Archives of Peat Bogs (Paperback)
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Sir Harry Godwin has written a companion volume to his widely
acclaimed Fenland: its ancient past and uncertain future. He
follows the same historical approach that made Fenland so
interesting. Vast rain-fed peat bogs still cover the landscape of
northern and western Britain, their ecology, vegetation and flora
unfamiliar to most of our population. Yet, through the millennia
since last Ice Age, they have accumulated ever-deepening acidic
peat, whose plant remains are a precious archive of the events of
the past. Upon investigation, the reconstructed bog vegetation gave
clues to former climatic history, pollen analysis provided a
chronological scale dependent upon changes in upland forest
composition and archaeological objects from the Mesolithic to the
Roman period were recovered by peat-diggers from observed horizons
in the bogs. The Archives of Peat Bogs will be of great interest to
a wide readership comprising both amateur and professional
biologists, geologists, geographers, archaeologists, naturalists
and antiquarians.
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