Title: |
FROM LIME FOREST TO HEATHLAND - 5000 YEARS OF CHANGE AT WEST HEATH SPA, HAMPSTEAD, LONDON. |
Series: |
Historic England Research Reports
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DOI |
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Publication Type: |
Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Organic samples from a spring on Hampstead Heath, north London provided the results for a pollen diagram covering the time from the early neolithic until the postmedieval period. As the site was small, it covers the vegetation of the dry land exceptionally well. There were also a few seeds that were studied. The results show that there was originally a lime forest. This was cleared in successive phases and replaced by open vegetation with heathland and holly woods. Cereals were grown, and buckwheat. In the latest phase, sweet chestnut, walnut and horse chestnut were planted. Organic samples also contained a number of important beetle faunas. The results indicate old forest with lime, and rotting trees in the early part of the neolithic sequence. Dung beetles appear at the elm decline horizon (later neolithic), and there are less signs of forest and more of damp open soils, pools and of insects feeding upon aquatic vegetation. |
Author: |
J R A Greig
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Publisher: |
Historic England
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Greater London HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
1990
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Locations: |
Site: |
West Heath Spa, Hampstead Heath |
Parish: |
HAMPSTEAD |
District: |
Camden |
County: |
Greater London |
Country: |
England |
Location - Auto Detected: |
Hampstead Heath north London |
Grid Reference: 526000, 186500 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
englishh2-131180 |
OBIB: |
18/1990 |
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Note: |
A4 bound report of 10pp.
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Created Date: |
28 Nov 2016 |