Bretherton, J. and Pearson, E. (2000). Watching Brief at Gwen Finch Nature Reserve, Birlington, Worcs. Worcestershire County Council Historic Environment & Archaeology Service.

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Title:		 Watching Brief at Gwen Finch Nature Reserve, Birlington, Worcs
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Number of Pages:		 14
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Publication Type:		 Report
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Abstract:		 The watching brief identified evidence for human occupation of the Avon River valley from the prehistoric period onwards, charting environmental changes due to human influence from analysis of pollen samples and the Carbon-14 dating. Analysis of pollen remains suggested that a local landscape of marshy vegetation predominated within a wider landscape of largely deforested open grassland. Comparison of the pollen assemblage with other sites suggested that the River Avon valley was under a livestock farming regime with limited arable cultivation in the later prehistoric period, tentatively dated to the later Bronze Age. The use of this part of the floodplain as a hay meadow through medieval, post-medieval and modern times was identified from visible and relict earthworks, documentary and cartographic sources. [Au(abr)]
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Author:		 Jeremy Bretherton
Elizabeth Pearson
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Publisher:		 Worcestershire County Council Historic Environment & Archaeology Service
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Year of Publication:		 2000
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Locations:
Location - Auto Detected: River Avon
Location - Auto Detected: Avon River valley
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PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)
20TH CENTURY (Historic England Periods)
Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal)
Medieval Postmedieval (Auto Detected Temporal)
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Note:		 Date Of Issue From: 2000 Date Of Coverage From: 01 Date Of Coverage To: 01 Editorial Expansion: Site name: GWEN FINCH NATURE RESERVE, BIRLINGTON
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Investigation type: Post-determination/Research
District: Wychavon
Monument: FEATURE. Undated
Ngr: SO93904180
Parish: Birlington, Birlingham
Postcode: WR103DJ
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Created Date:		 19 Jan 2009