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This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Late-devensian and flandrian palaeoecological studies in the Isle of Wight. Scaife, R. G The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 08. Oct. 2021 LATE-OEVENSIANAIDFLAN)RIAN PALAEOECOLOGICAL STUDIESIN THE ISLE OF WIGHT ROBERTGORDON SCAIFE VOLUME2 0 THESIS SUBMITTEDFOR THE DEGREEOF DOCTOROF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENTOF GEOGRAPHY KING'S COLLEGE,UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 1980 'ý y \ 4.. BEST COPY AVAILABLE Variable print quality CONTAINS PULLOUTS . ý" :; -4 C) iý a C Z F-- N ý C O O aö "c ý m c N c N C 4-C C L .. v ö 3 o ö 3 o°ý : W - L ö 3 3 V 0 LO- N c L cO o s O cc w ä O ai L i 16- Jam. 3 U) a) N 4O r a) U) N Q) to 4-r O ýrl ro M W 4 I Key to Figure 3. 1. Gatccmbe Withy Bed. Chapter 6 2. Munsley Bog. Chapter 7. 3. Borthwood Bog. Chapter 8. 4. Bohemia Bog. Chapter 9. 5. Ninham Bog. Chapter 10. 6. Redway (preliminary analysis) 7. Brook Bay (Clifford 1936 and partial analysis) 8. Headon Warren. Chapter 16 (Bronze Age) 9. Newbarn Down. Chapter 16 (Bronze Age). 10. Apes Down. Chapter 16. (Bronze Age). 11. The Longstone, Mottistone. Chapter 15 (Neolithic) 12. Combley Roman Villa. Chapter 17. 5 Z-( I 0 M N N Y In O N " w "v U) Fb" V " N r "v WW " J fg ä I, J_ " U1 "f Mä So ýV Ow A ry "" A N N N ry ry V 1-1 p " " + + ýn ^! 1 N N N" N " N O N 4 N M 40" O N "p A+J C n0" N. " N 6 Key to Figure 4. 1. Litton Cheney. Sidaway 1964 2. Black Down. Thompson and Ashbee 1957. 3. Turners Puddle Heath. Dimbleby and Piggott 1953 4. Winfrith Heath. Simons and Dimbleby 1974. 5. East-Stoke. Haskins 1978. 6. Morden A. Haskins 1978. 7. Morden B. Haskins 1978. 8. The Moors. Haskins 1978. 9. Rempstone. Haskins 1978. 10. Godlington A. Haskins 1978. 11. Godlington B. Haskins 1978. 12. Luscombe. Haskins 1978. 13. Chicks Hill. Ashbee and Dimbleby 1958. 14. Wareham. Seagrief 1959. 15. Cranes Moor. Seagrief 1960. 16. Church Moor. Barber 1975. 17. South Street. Dbmbleby and Evans 1974. 18. ' Avebury. Dimbleby and Evans 1974. 19. Nursling. Seagrief 1959. 20. Southampton Water. Godwin and Godwin 1940. 21. Headon Warren. Chapter 16. 22. Brooh Bay. Clifford 1936. 23. Mottistone. The Longstone. Chapter 15. 24. Newbarn Down. Chapter 16. 25. Apes Down. Chapter 16. 26. Gatccenbe Withy Bed. Chapter 6. 27. Bohemia Bog. Chapter 9. 28. Munsley Bog. Chapter 7. 7 29. Ccanbley Roman Villa. Chapter 17. 30. Borthwood Bog. Chapter 8. 31r Ninham Bog. Chapter 10. 32. Gosport. Godwin 1945. 33. Cothill. Clapham and Clapham 1939. 34. Thatcham. Churchill 1962. 35. OakYanger. Rankine, Rankine and Dimbleby 1960. 36. West Heath., Hartin¬. Drewett 1976. 37. Iping Co mon. Keef, Wymer and Dimbleby 1965. 38. Elstead. Seagrief and Godwin 1960. 39. Thursley Common. Willmot 1968, Moore and Willmot 1976. 40. Amberley Wild Brooks. Thorley 1971a, 1971b. 41. Rackham. Dimbleby and Bradley 1975. 42. Hampstead Heath. Girling and Greig 1977. 43. Broad Sanctuary. Scaife 1980b. 44. Epping Forest. Baker, Moxey and Oxford 1978. 45. Newport Pond. Baker 1976. 46. Ebbsfleet Channel. Burchell and Piggott 1939. 47. The Lower Thames. Devoy 1977,1978,1979. 48. Addington. Dimbleby 1963. 49. Snodland. Erdtman 1928. 50. Hothfield Convnon. Webb 1972. 51. Brook. Kerney, Brown, Chandler 1964. 52. 'Frogholt. Godwin 1962. 53. Wingham. Godwin 1962. 6 Clay (Argilla-Silty Clay) Sand (Grana Arenosa) Stone IAAA Betula Wood (Turfa Lignosa) IV VV Alnus Wood (Turfa Lignosa) ww Salix Wood (Turfa Lignosa) " "" pa l Ch. II Fen Peat (Turfa Herbaceae) -_ý Highly, Htnnified Fen Peat (Turfa Herbaceae) Phra gmites (Turfa Herbaceae) Sphagnum jTurfa Bryophytica) Table 5. Stratigraphi. cal symbols used in the pollen diagrams and cross Valley profiles. 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