Find Spot record 1753 - Hatchmere, pollen analysis

Pollen analysis of the floor of a postglacial lake at Hatchmere, Norley by H J B Birks, J E Young and V R Switsur has great value for the study of early and mid postglacial human economies in Cheshire. Analysis revealed the following vegetational succession:- a hazel increase dated to 7729+/-140 bc; a marked hazel increase at 7630+/- 140 bc; the first elm increase at 7469+/- 120 bc; an oak increase at 6826+/- 130 bc; a pine maximum at 6390+/- 5 bc; an alder increase at 5453+/-114 bc; the start of the first 'landnam' phase at 3319+/- 80 bc and the end of the first 'landnam' phase at 2743+/-90 bc. Full vegetational history of the site not yet published (1).

<1> County Historic Environment Record, 1973-1985, Cheshire Archaeological Bulletin, 6/89-90 Wagstaff P 1978 (Journal/Periodical). SCH565.

<2> 1973, Radiocarbon, 17/39-40+303-04 1975 (Book). SCH2788.

<3> British Archaeological Reports, S35/250 Whittle A 1977 (Monograph). SCH461.

<4> Longley D, 1977-1978, Longley Archive, /no.812 (Paper Archive). SCH2005.