Romney Marsh : Coastal and Landscape Change Through the Ages

by Long, Antony; Hipkin, Stephen; Clarke, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780947816575
• ISBN10: 0947816577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
The Holocene Vegetation History of the Romney Marsh Region	p. 1
Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change in the Romney Marsh Region: New Evidence from Tilling Green, Rye	p. 22
The Evidence for Late Holocene Foreland Progradation and Rapid Tidal Sedimentation from the Barrier and Marsh Sediments of Romney Marsh and Dungeness: A Geomorphological Approach	p. 40
Palaeoenvironmental Changes during the Last 4000 Years at Scotney Marsh, Romney Marsh, Kent: A Multiproxy Approach	p. 58
Reconstructing Late Holocene Intertidal Environments and Channel Networks: A review of the Role of Benthic Foraminfera Biostratigraphy on Romney Marsh	p. 75
Romney Marsh: Evolution of the Historic Landscape and its Wider Setting	p. 84
The Late Medieval 'Antediluvian' Landscape of Walland Marsh	p. 101
The Rumenesea Wall, Romney and Walland Marshes: A Commentary	p. 121
The Purpose, Construction and Operation of a 13th-Century Watercourse: The Rhee, Romney Marsh, Kent	p. 127
Land Holding and the Land Market in a 15th-Century Peasant Community: Appledore, 1400-1470	p. 140
"To fasten itt upon his successors, heirs and owners of that howse...so longe as the world standeth": Family Identity and Romney Marshlands in Early Modern Kent	p. 157
The Worlds of Daniel Langdon: Public Office and Private Enterprise in the Romney Marsh Region in the Early-18th Century	p. 173
A 'Particularly Convenient and Useful' Arrangement: The Symbiotic Relationship between the Agrarian Economy of Romney Marsh and the Surrounding Region in the 18th Century	p. 190
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