Fenland : Its Ancient Past and Uncertain Future (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ecological background; 3. Pollen analysis; 4. Bog oaks and buried forests; 5. Flandrian deposits and the Fenland Research Committee; 6. Shippea Hill and the natural bed of the River Little Ouse; 7. The Lower Peat and the Fen Clay; 8. The Upper Peat: hoards and trackways; 9. Iron Age hiatus, roddons and Romans; 10. Extinct meres and shell-marl; 11. Conspectus and historical framework; 12. Peat and its winning; 13. The loss of the peat: shrinkage and wastage; 14. Fenland drainage; 15. Ancient crops, natural and cultivated; 16. Lost and vanishing species: conservation; References; Index.