England's Coastal Heritage: A Survey for English Heritage and the RCHMEEnglish Heritage, 1997 - 268 pages This report documents research jointly commi ssioned by English Heritage and the RCHME from the Universit ies of Reading and Southampton. It examines the character of the recorded coastal archaeological resource and identifies future themes for survey. ' |
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Page 17
... built to develop the major ports . The obvious context for archaeological discoveries was the beach , or the intertidal zone in general , where the ero- sive action of the sea had revealed what otherwise might lie buried inland ...
... built to develop the major ports . The obvious context for archaeological discoveries was the beach , or the intertidal zone in general , where the ero- sive action of the sea had revealed what otherwise might lie buried inland ...
Page 63
... built up to a level at which inundation was infrequent and a surface became vegetated , later to be inundated by continuing sea - level rise . Likewise , the formation . and breaching of coastal barriers has often been identified as an ...
... built up to a level at which inundation was infrequent and a surface became vegetated , later to be inundated by continuing sea - level rise . Likewise , the formation . and breaching of coastal barriers has often been identified as an ...
Page 191
... built at the mouth of a river to restrict storm tides and prevent flooding upriver . Such tidal barriers are present on the Hull , the Tees , and the Thames . The impact of barriers on archaeological materials may vary . Barriers have ...
... built at the mouth of a river to restrict storm tides and prevent flooding upriver . Such tidal barriers are present on the Hull , the Tees , and the Thames . The impact of barriers on archaeological materials may vary . Barriers have ...
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aerial Archaeol archaeological material archaeological remains archaeological resource archaeological sites areas artefacts assessment beach Blackwater Estuary Bridgwater Bay briquetage Bronze Age cal BC century cliff coast coastal archaeology coastal erosion coastal zone coastline context Cornwall County Council crustal dendrochronology deposits dunes England English Heritage environment environmental eroded Essex evidence excavation fieldwork finds fishing foreshore future sea-level Goldcliff Harbour Holocene Hullbridge human activities impact important industry intertidal zone Iron Age Island Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Kent landscape Langstone Harbour major marine Marsh medieval ment Mesolithic Neolithic Palaeolithic peat period photographs planning ports post-medieval pottery prehistoric preservation RCHME record regional retreat river Romano-British salt salt-making saltmarsh sand sea-level change sea-level rise sediment settlement Severn Estuary Shennan shore shoreline Solent Somerset Somerset Levels structures submerged forests subtidal survey threat tidal tion wetlands Wilkinson and Murphy Wootton Quarr