A Pollen Diagram from Hallowell Moss, Near Durham City, U.K.

Donaldson, Alison M; Turner, Judith

doi:10.2307/3038125

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“…This palynological evidence resembles that from many other sites in northern England such as Hallowell Moss, Durham (Donaldson & Turner, 1977), Thorpe B ulmer and Hutton Henry in Co. Durham (B artley, Chambers & Hart-Jones, 1976), Stewart Shield Meadow and Bollihope Bog, Weardale (Roberts, Turner & Ward, 1973); Muckle Moss, Northumbria (Pearson, 1960), Coom Rigg Moss, Northumbria (Chapman, 1964) and Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbrla (Barber, 1981) (Fig. 1).…”

Section: Palynological Evidence For Vegetation Clearancesupporting

confidence: 57%

Iron age and Roman vegetation clearance in Northern Britain: Further evidence

Dumayne

1993

Botanical Journal of Scotland

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The long-standing debate of whether the Romans faced a wooded landscape when they invaded northern Britain is reassessed in light of new palynological evidence in the Hadrianic-Antonine frontier zone. The radiocarbon-dated pollen diagrams suggest that, except for at Fozy Moss, Northumbria, substantial woodland clearance was already underway prior to the Roman invasion of the area. It is evident that there was considerable spatial and temporal variability in the vegetation cover during the period under consideration.

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Section: Palynological Evidence For Vegetation Clearancesupporting

confidence: 57%

Iron age and Roman vegetation clearance in Northern Britain: Further evidence

Dumayne

1993

Botanical Journal of Scotland

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“…At Fozy Moss, small, temporary Iron Age clearances are similar to those displayed in other pollen diagrams from northeast England (Pearson, 1960;Chapman, 1964;Donaldson and Turner, 1977;Davies, 1978;Davies and Turner, 1979;Turner, 1979) and from Bolton Fell Moss, Cumbria (Barber, 1981). These diagrams suggest that, during most of the Iron Age, the landscape was well wooded and that breaks in the canopy occurred for small temporary clearances and grazing.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Substantial clearance also occurs during Roman times at a number of other sites in northeast Northumbria and County Durham (Roberts et al, 1973;Bartley et al, 1976;Donaldson and Turner, 1977;Chambers, 1978;Davies and Turner, 1979;Turner 1979;Rowell and Turner, 1985). This situation is paralleled in the area around the Antonine Wall (Dumayne, 1992), though in some areas of southern, northeastern and central Scotland woodland regeneration was already underway as the Roman invasion led to the disruption of the local population and their social conditions (Edwards, 1978;Boyd, 1984a;1984b;1985a;1985b;Dickson and Dickson, 1988;Whittington et al, 1990;, or substantial clearance had not yet occurred (Turner, 1964).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

The impact of the Romans on the environment of northern England: pollen data from three sites close to Hadrian's Wall

Dumayne

Barber

1994

The Holocene

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Pollen diagrams from three sites along Hadrian's Wall in northern England are used to assess human impact on vegetation during the later Holocene, but with particular reference to the Roman period. In the light of available archaeological evidence, the radiocarbon-dated diagrams indicate that at Walton Moss and Glasson Moss, Cumbria, a period of woodland removal began during the Iron Age, continuing and accelerating during the Roman occupation. At Fozy Moss there was little human impact on vegetation in the area around the moss until the time of the Roman occupation when massive clearance resulted in an almost completely deforested landscape. These results are discussed against the background of previously published pollen diagrams from northern Britain.

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“…For the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, the vegetational and land-use history of County Durham has been mapped out by workers such as Bartley et al (1976); Chambers (1974); Donaldson and Turner (1977); Rendell (1971) and Turner et al (1973), using the presence of indicator species such as Plantago lanceolata and Rumex acetosella to illustrate pasture farming activity and Plantago media major and cerealia for arable. The general picture put forward in both lowlands and uplands in the Neolithic is one of small-scale temporary clearances which see an increase in grass, weed and shrub pollen and which, in the absence of cereal pollen, have been assigned almost automatically to pastoral land use (e.g.…”

Section: He Estabushed Environmental Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%