Soil Pollen and Soil Micromorphological Analyses of Old Ground Surfaces on Biggar Common, Borders Region, Scotland

Modelling land use around an early Neolithic timber ‘hall’ in north east Scotland from high spatial resolution pollen analyses

“…Degraded or amorphous pollen are, in the absence of experimental data, often assumed to be a product of sustained biochemical or physical deterioration (Cushing, 1964;Lowe, 1982;Tipping et al, 1994;Tipping, 1995). Samples with more crumpled determinate grains have higher proportions of degraded determinate grains, but there is no such relation between severe corrosion and degradation, suggesting that degradation has an origin in mechanical damage rather than biochemical decay.…”

A palynological and geoarchaeological investigation into Bronze Age farming at Belderg Beg, Co. Mayo, Ireland

“…the frequencies of Hordeum type and arable indicator pollen) implies that crops were cultivated in the BB1 soil. As soil pollen spectra are generally accepted to reflect the pollen rain from short period of time prior to burial (Tipping et al, 1994(Tipping et al, , 1999, the arable crops recorded in the BB1 pollen profile probably relates to the later cultivation period only (the ridge-and-furrow cultivation of 1004).…”

Roman vineyards in Britain: stratigraphic and palynological data from Wollaston in the Nene Valley, England

“…Roman examples include Plymouth, London (Bermondsey) , Silchester and Gloucester (Godwin 1975) and Medieval examples include Bolton Fell Moss (Barber 1981) and Slapton Ley (Foster et al 2000). The pollen from Roman urban archaeological sites has generally been ascribed to imported grapes or raisins (Greig 1982;1994), for which there is archaeobotanical evidence both preceding and during the Roman period (Jones & Legge 1987; Williams 1977). However, finds from later, Post-Roman, Medieval contexts (F. Chambers, P. Wiltshire pers.…”