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Pollen Evidence for the Environment of Roman Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Petra Dark
Petra Dark
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Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
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Pollen analysis has long been recognised as of key importance to archaeology for environmental reconstruction, but its application has concentrated on prehistory. This is, perhaps, due to a combination of two factors. First, there has been a greater interest by pollen analysts in questions relating to prehistoric than historic environments. Second, there are fewer suitable sequences available for later periods, especially from peat deposits where the upper layers have often been disturbed or removed by peat cutting. There is, however, an increasing amount of pollen-analytical data relevant to the first millennium A.D., and the purpose of this paper is to collate this information in order to illustrate the nature of the environment of Roman Britain.

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Britannia , Volume 30 , November 1999 , pp. 247 - 272
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Copyright © Petra Dark 1999. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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