Housley, R. A., Straker, V. and Cope, D. W. (1999). The Hococene Peat and Alluvial Stratigraphy of the Upper Brue Valley in the Somerset Levels Based on Soil Survey Data of the 1980s. Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 10. Vol 10, pp. 11-23. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069463. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 The Hococene Peat and Alluvial Stratigraphy of the Upper Brue Valley in the Somerset Levels Based on Soil Survey Data of the 1980s
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Issue:		 Archaeology in the Severn Estuary 10
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Page Start/End:		 11 - 23
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Abstract:		 In the 1980s the Soil Survey of England and Wales undertook a re-survey of the peat moors of the Somerset Levels as part of the National Lowland Peat Inventory. The intention was to cover the region using hand-driven boreholes at a 0.5 km resolution based on the Ordnance Survey 's National Grid. Although some of the new information was summarised in two publications (Burton and Hodgson 1987; Cope 1987) full details were never published. Examination of the available stratigraphic records presents a picture of the Holocene lithology of a hitherto relatively unstudied area of peat moorland in the Upper Brue encompassing Queen's Sedgemoor, Godney Moor and Glastonbury Heath. The borehole coverage is sufficient to allow the mapping of a number of sub-surface organic and alluvial lithological units. What emerges is the palaeogeography of a dynamic wet lowland landscape, mostly characterised by wood fen carr and sedge fen interspersed with muddy detrital watercourses and limited raised bog development, covered in places by extensive riverine deposits, at times influenced by high groundwater levels and estuarine alluviation.
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Author:		 Rupert A Housley
Vanessa Straker
David W W Cope
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Year of Publication:		 1999
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Holocene (Auto Detected Temporal)
Riverine Deposits (Auto Detected Subject)
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Created Date:		 09 Oct 2017