Ramsay, S., Housley, R. A. and Miller, J. J. (2007). Palaeoenvironmental investigations of Rispain Mire, Whithorn. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 81 (third series). Vol 81, pp. 35-55.
Title The title of the publication or report |
Palaeoenvironmental investigations of Rispain Mire, Whithorn | |||||||
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Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 81 (third series) | |||||||
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Transactions of the Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society | |||||||
Volume Volume number and part |
81 | |||||||
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35 - 55 | |||||||
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
Report on a palaeoenvironmental study carried out on a wet fen/mire located 400m south of Rispain Camp, an Iron Age site in Galloway. The investigation revealed a good late-glacial and early-mid Holocene vegetational record but a rather compressed late Holocene sequence. The early post-glacial landscape around Rispain was dominated by Empetrum heath and herb-rich grassland. As the climate improved, woodland dominated by first Betula, then Corylus colonised the area, followed by Quercus and Ulmus as additions to the canopy-forming woodland flora. Alnus appears to have struggled to gain a significant local presence, only becoming important once human impact became an influential feature in the landscape. Unlike other parts of lowland Scotland, Pinus is well represented at Rispain which is in keeping with some other parts of Galloway. It is debatable whether Mesolithic woodland disturbance is discernible at Rispain; however, forest clearance is well documented in later periods, although in the study the temporal resolution is low in the late Holocene. By the Iron Age the majority of the native woodland had been felled and the landscape was dominated by open pasture and arable cultivation. | |||||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2007 | |||||||
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[OS NX 429 395] | |||||||
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11 Feb 2008 |