HULLBRIDGE SURVEY, ESSEX: PALAEOECOLOGICAL AND PALAEOECONOMIC RESULTS FROM THE 1986 SURVEY SEASON.
Author(s): P Murphy
Results from intertidal sites in the estuaries of the Rivers Thames, Roach and Blackwater are presented. Shelly midden-type deposits of Roman and medieval date on Canvey Island produced mollusca, crustaceans, mammal,bird and fish-bones, avian eggshell, diatoms and carbonised plant remains. At Purfleet a palaeosol containing a woodland mollusc fauna and neolithic axes, overlain by wood peat, was sampled. A preliminary study of the biostratigraphy of the Roach is described. In the Blackwater Estuary a settlement site, later prehistoric wooden structures and associated sediments produced seeds, cereals and wood.
- Report Number:
- 70/1987
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 42
- Keywords:
- Animal Remains Environmental Studies Plant Remains
