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Excavations in Zone VII Peat at Storrs Moss, Lancashire, England, 1965–67

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2014

T. G. E. Powell ,
Frank Oldfield  and
J. X. W. P. Corcoran
T. G. E. Powell
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Liverpool
Frank Oldfield
Affiliation:
School of Biological and Environmental Studies, New University of Ulster
J. X. W. P. Corcoran
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
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Within recent years pollen-analytical studies carried out in lake sediments and raised bog peats around the head of Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, have disclosed extensive evidence for anthropogenic change at the British Pollen Zone VIIa–VIIb (Atlantic–Sub-Boreal) boundary, including characteristic ‘Ulmus Decline’, and Landnam phenomena (summarized by Oldfield, 1963). The question immediately arose as to the archaeological identity of the prehistoric communities responsible. The beginnings of Neolithic settlement in north-western England were quite obscure, and have largely so remained. The principal archaeological evidence for any Neolithic penetration of the region derives from the accidental discovery, nearly a century ago, of a bog-site at Ehenside Tarn, close to the west Cumberland coast (Piggott, 1954, 295–9; Walker, 1966), and to the presence of numerous stone axes occurring as stray finds throughout the region. More recently, the discovery of ‘stone axe factories’ on the high screes of Great Langdale and Scafell, and the wide distribution of Group VI axes therefrom, have emphasized the potentialities for further investigation (Fell, 1966, and refs. therein).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , July 1971 , pp. 112 - 137
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1971

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