Abstract
ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a developer-funded, geoarchaeological study at Brackenway, Formby, Merseyside. The study comprised the extraction of borehole cores, which were subjected to deposit modelling, radiocarbon dating, and palaeoenvironmental assessment that considered a range of environmental proxies (pollen, plant macrofossils, diatoms, microfauna and insects). The study identified two terrestrial (peat) layers, separated by a perimarine deposit (the Downholland Silt), and these provide important data on the chronology of sea-level change in Merseyside, the formation of the Irish Sea, and of potential hunter-gatherer activity during the mid-late ninth and eighth millennia cal BC. It therefore highlights the way in which comparatively small-scale developer-funded investigations can produce important records of environmental change, which can be used to supplement and refine pre-existing models of sea-level and landscape change relevant to both the locale and wider regions.
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