Snelling, A. and Garton, D. (2001). Report on the Recording of the Three Sections at Newark Dyke Moorings, Nottinghamshire. Nottingham: Trent & Peak Archaeology.

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Title:		 Report on the Recording of the Three Sections at Newark Dyke Moorings, Nottinghamshire
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Number of Pages:		 23
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Publication Type:		 Report
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Abstract:		 This report was the product of a section recording exercise during the construction of a marina. The design agreed with the County Council for the archaeological works specified that two sections (1 and 2) woudl be cut on a north-south alignment acriss the site to record the sequence of deposits and recover appropriate samples for palaeoenvironmental assessment and dating. Three units of stratigraphy were identifed in Section 1, but only the Upper and Middle Units were identified in Section 2. The Upper unit was a thick band of silty clay up to 2m in depth with no features. The Middle unit was made up of grey and black silts and clays, interleaved with sands and sandy clays with occasional gravel. The Lower unit was sands and gravels of variable proportions and was continuous across the site: it rested unconformably on the basal clays of Mercia Mudstone. Despite the waterlogged conditions, organic mateirals were rare. The wood present was either redposited, and therefore not useful for radiocarbon dating, or had ring-sequences that could not be subject to dendrochronological dating. No samples were therefore analysed for palaeoenvironmental information. The Upper unit, of undifferentiated silty sediments, clearly represented the most recent sediments, probably from periodic winter/spring flooding of this part of the Trent Valley. The presence of tree-trunks within the Lower unit sands and gravel was evidence for its reworking well within the Holocene peirod. The sequence of deposits, although undated, contributed to the understanding of the geomorphic nd stratigraphic developmnt of this part of the Trent floodplain. [Au(abr)]
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Author:		 A Snelling
Daryl Garton
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Publisher:		 Trent & Peak Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2001
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Location - Auto Detected: Trent
Location - Auto Detected: Trent Valley
Location - Auto Detected: Newark Dyke
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Holocene (Auto Detected Temporal)
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Note:		 Date Of Issue From: 2001 Date Of Coverage From: 01 Date Of Coverage To: 01 Editorial Expansion: Site name: NEWARK DYKE MOORINGS
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Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: Newark and Sherwood
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Ngr: SK79805460
Parish: Newark
Postcode: NG241FW
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Created Date:		 19 Jan 2009