| Abstract: |
Gives the background to tree-ring studies in the Levels, the methods of analysis, and the results for timber tracks, roundwood material, brushwood structures, and hurdle structures. Some twenty structures of Neo-BA date provided 4000 samples from six principal tree species (oak, ash, hazel, birch, alder, and lime). Great skill was shown by the builders in selecting and using wood, but pace Rackham and others it is not yet possible to prove that coppicing was practised. Three oak chronologies, respectively 410, 250 and 152 years long, are still floating, though broadly dated by 14C; curves for ash and lime have also been constructed. |
