Mapping past landscapes in the Lower Lea Valley: a geoarchaeological study of the Quaternary sequence
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
. . .
Summary
......
Acknowledgements
xii
xv
Introduction
1 1.1
The Lea Valley Mapping Project
1.2
Justification of the project: meeting the criteria
oř
theALSF
.......................
1.3
Aims and objectives
.................
1.4
Data dissemination
..................
Overview
.......................
The monograph
...................
The Archaeology Data Service database
......
The London Archaeological Archive and Research
Centre archive
....................
1.5
Textual and graphical conventions
.........
4
4
4
4
5
6
6
The historical context of the lower Lea
2.1
Introduction
....................... 8
2.2
The River Lea: its historical development and usage
9
Boundaries and conflict along the River Lea
..... 10
Mills of the River Lea
................. 10
Fisheries of the River Lea
................ 12
Logboat finds along the River Lea
........... 13
Bridges and ferries of the lower Lea
.......... 13
Navigation of the River Lea
.............. 14
The reservoirs of the River Lea
............ 16
2.3
The character of the modern floodplain
........ 16
2.4
Gravel extraction and artificial ground in the Lea
valley
........................... 20
Methodology and approach to
deposit modelling
3.1
Introduction
....................... 23
3.2
Data collection and database creation
......... 24
Borehole data
...................... 24
The
stratigraphie
database
............... 25
Archaeology data collection and organisation
..... 27
3.3
Deposit model construction
.............. 29
Geoarchaeological deposit models
........... 29
The Lea Valley Mapping Project approach to
deposit modelling
............. 29
3.4
Characterising the buried landscape
.......... 39
Landscape zones
............. 39
Terrains
...........
4()
3.5
Timescales used in this report
............. 42
Мар
ι:
the Thames confluence
4
Map
2:
the Bow back rivers
Map
3:
Tottenham to Leyton
6
Quaternary timescales
.................42
Archaeological timescales
...............42
4.1
Overview
......................... 44
4.2
Terrain
1 :
central floodplain
.............. 48
Landscape zone
1.1 ................... 48
Landscape zone
1.11................... 51
4.3
Terrain
2:
marginal
................... 53
Landscape zone
1.2 ................... 53
Landscape zone
1.3 ................... 54
Landscape zone
1.5 ................... 56
Landscape zone
1.7 ................... 57
4.4
Terrain
3:
low terrace
.................. 58
Landscape zone
1.4 ................... 58
Landscape zone
1.8 ................... 59
Landscape zone
1.10................... 59
4.5
Terrain
4:
high terrace
.................. 60
Landscape zone
1.9 ................... 60
Landscape zone
1.12................... 60
4.6
Terrain
6:
tributary valleys
............... 61
Landscape zone
1.6 ................... 61
5.1
Overview
..................
5.2
Terrains
1
and
2:
valley floor
.......
Landscape zone
2.1 ............
5.3
Terrain
3:
low terrace
...........
Landscape zone
2.3 ............
Landscape zone
2.2 ............
5.4
Terrain
4:
high terrace
..........
Landscape zone
2.5 ............
Landscape zone
2.4 ............
5.5
Terrain
6:
tributaries
...........
Landscape zone
2.7 ............
Landscape zones
2.6, 2.8
and
2.9.....
6.1
Overview
..................
6.2
Terrain
1 :
valley floor (central floodplain)
Landscape zones
3.5, 3.9
and
3.10.....
6.3
Terrain
2 :
floodplain margins
.......
Landscape zone
3.4 ............
Landscape zone
3.14............
6.4
Terrain
3:
low terrace
...........
Landscape zone
3.3 ............
62
64
64
68
68
70
71
71
71
72
72
73
74
78
78
87
87
87
88
88
Landscape zone
3.15
6.5
Terrain
4:
high terrace
Map
4:
Edmonton and Chingford
Map
5:
Enfield
West: landscape zone
3.11
89
East: landscape zone
3.13................
90
6.6
Terrain
5 :
London Clay slopes and sloping valley side
91
West: landscape zones
3.1, 3.2
and
3.6
91
East: landscape zones
3.7
and
3.8............
92
6.7
Terrain
6:
tributary valleys
...............
93
Landscape zones
3.1, 3.6
and
3.7............
93
Landscape zone
3.12...................
93
7.1
Overview and modern characteristics
.........
95
7.2
Terrains
1
and
2 :
valley floor
..............
99
Landscape zones
4.4
and
4.5..............
99
7.3
Terrain
3:
low terrace
.................
104
West: landscape zones
4.3
and
4.12 .........
104
East: landscape zones
4.6, 4.8
and
4.9........
105
7.4
Terrain
4 :
high river terraces
............
105
Landscape zones
4.1, 4.2
and
4.13..........
105
7.5
Terrain
5:
exposed London Clay slopes
.......
106
Landscape zones
4.10
and
4.11 ............
106
7.6
Terrain
6 :
tributary valleys
..............
106
Landscape zones
4.7, 4.15
and
4.14 .........
106
8 8.1
Overview
........................
108
8.2
Terrain
1 :
valley floor (central floodplain)
.....
109
Landscape zone
5.4 ..................
109
Landscape zone
5.5 ..................
120
Landscape zone
5.2 ..................
120
8.3
Terrain
3:
low terrace
.................
121
Landscape zone
5.6 ..................
121
8.4
Terrain
4:
high terrace
.................
122
Landscape zone
5.8 ..................
122
Landscape zone
5.9 ..................
123
8.5
Terrain
5:
London Clay slopes
............
124
Landscape zone
5.1...................
124
Landscape zone
5.10..................
124
8.6
Terrain
6:
tributary valleys
..............
124
Landscape zone
5.3 ..................
124
Landscape zone
5.7 ..................
125
Landscape zone
5.11..................
125
Landscape zone
5.12
126
Landscape zone
5.13..................
126
Previous geological mapping by the British
Geological Survey
Modelling the river terraces of the lower Lea
9 9.1
Introduction
...................... 127
9.2
Medium-scale primary survey
............ 128
9.3
First large-scale survey
................. 128
9.4
Early revision surveys
................. 129
9.5
Modern revision surveys
............... 129
1980........................... 129
1992........................... 129
Artificial deposits
................... 130
IO
10.1
The Pleistocene topography
............. 131
10.2
Previous work
..................... 131
10.3
The river terraces of the Lea valley
.......... 132
10.4
Modelling the Pleistocene deposits
.......... 134
Deposit distribution
................. 134
Longitudinal profiles
................. 134
Longitudinal gradients
................ 135
Three-dimensional mapping
............. 136
Conclusion
....................... 137
Late Quaternary environments in the
lower Lea
Π
11.1
Introduction
...................... 140
11.2
Reliability of the environmental evidence
..... 142
11.3
The Late Pleistocene Arctic Beds
.......... 145
11.4
Lateglacial and Early Holocene environments
. . . 149
Survival of the evidence
............... 149
Evidence from the Nazeing channel
......... 150
Distribution of the Lateglacial and Early Holocene
evidence from the study area
............. 150
11.5
The changing environment represented by the
Lateglacial and Early Holocene deposit sequence
153
Floodplain pools of the Loch Lomond
Stadial
and
earliest Holocene
.................... 154
Mere contraction, peat and organic deposits
..... 154
A rise in water levels
................. 154
11.6
Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation succession in
the lower Lea
...................... 155
Pollen evidence
.................... 155
11.7
Alluvial deposits
.................... 157
Characteristics of the Lea valley alluvial sequence
157
Distingishing brickearth from alluvium
....... 157
Alluvial and estuarine clay
............... 160
Encroaching estuarine environments
......... 160
Correlation of peat deposits between the alluvial
sequence of the Lea and that of the east London
Thames
Channel migration and lateral accretion
.8
Human impact on the late Quaternary
environment of
tlie
lower Lea
Predicting Mesolithic sites
12 12.
1 Introduction
12.2
Mesolithic sites and finds within the lower Lea
vail
e v
......
12.3
Mesolithic sites in the
Colne
valley
12.4
Areas of potential Mesolithic archaeology within
the Lea vallev
Settlement patterns in the Lea valley
13 13.1
Introduction
........
17«
13.2
Hunter-gatherers: Mesolithic
.......
17 )
13.3
Beginnings of a sedentary lifestyle: Neolithic to
Early Bronze Age
..................
17^
Tributary valleys (T6)
................
179
River terraces (T3 and T4)
.............
179
Marginal areas (T2)
..................
180
13.4
Intensification of land use: Middle to Late Bronze-
Age
...........................
181
Floodplain (Tl) and marginal areas (T2)
.......
182
Tributary valleys (T6)
.................
182
Low terraces (T3)
...................
182
High river terraces (T4)
................
182
13.5
A move to mixed farming: Iron Age
.........
182
Floodplain and tributary valleys (T1 and T6)
....
183
High river terraces (T4)
................
183
Low terraces (T3)
...................
184
13.6
Roman
.........................
184
Floodplain (Tl)
....................
184
High river terraces (T4)
................
184
Low river terraces (T3)
................
185
Ermine Street (T4, T3 and T6)
............
185
13.7
Saxon/early medieval (c
450—1066)..........
185
Floodplain (Tl)
....................
186
High river terraces and sloping valley sides (T4
and T5)
.........................
186
Low terraces (T3)
...................
186
13.8
Medieval
........................
187
Floodplain and river channels (Tl)
..........
188
High terraces (T4)
...................
188
Low terraces (T3)
...................
188
13.9
Discussion
of
distribution
............... 188
13.10
Inferences for archaeological potential and
implications for future work
.............. 190
Ground truthing
14
I4.I Introduction
191
14.2
First stage of ground truthing: monitoring
geotechnical boreholes
................. 191
The low terrace
..................... 192
The mosaic of islands and wetlands
......... 194
The main channel area
................. 194
14.3
Second stage of ground truthing: evaluation
trenches
......................... 195
14.4
Conclusions
...................... 201
The Lea valley in a regional context
15
Glossary of geoarchaeological terms
French and German summaries
. . 203
205
. 207
Bibliography
Index
. 210
222
CD-ROM Archaeological gazetteer
Dating database
Palaeoenvironmental database
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