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The Loam-Terrains of Southeast England and their relation to its Early History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

S. W. Wooldridge  and
D. L. Linton
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In his most valuable and stimulating work on The Personality of Britain, Dr Cyril Fox has assembled a large body of archaeological data and has presented an interpretation of the several successive distributions based upon essentially geographical considerations. This theme covers a wide range of topics which interest workers in other fields, none more than geographers. One of the geographer’s main interests lies in the study of Regions, and he may well claim to have been afforded by Dr Fox a most valuable addition to his data, which enables him to push back his study of regional distinctness into earlier periods than those with which history deals. In return, he may hope to contribute something to the interpretation from his own field which embraces analysis of regional physique in all its aspects.

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Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 27 , September 1933 , pp. 297 - 310
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1933

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* It may be noted that ‘Belgic frontier’ defmed by Wheeler (ANTIQUITY19 32, VI, 133 ff) coincides remarkably closely with one of the soil-boundaries shown on the accompanying map (p. 301); to the north lies the Chiltern plateau, while to the south is the gravel and loam terrain of the Vale of St. Albans. The tract of ‘pre-historic forest’ shown on Wheeler’s map is presumably based upon the distribution of the boulder-clay as shown on the geological map. In actual fact the boulder-clay is partly replaced by and almost completely covered by brickearth in this area, which must thus have been favourable to arable cultivation. The heavy forest land probably came on suddenly north of the ‘frontier’, which is a natural ecological boundary.

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