Medieval land remediation of a quarry site at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, revealed by microfossil analysis

Backfill material from a 12th- to13th-century quarry, north of Wallingford, south Oxfordshire, comprises sandy loam overlain by Cretaceous (early Cenomanian; Mantelliceras mantelli Macrofaunal Biozone) Glauconitic Marl Member, of the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation as identified by its abundant,...

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Published in:Environmental archaeology : the journal of human palaeoecology 2014-06, Vol.19 (2), p.124-130
Main Authors: Janssen, D. M., Wilkinson, I. P., Williams, M., Gouldwell, A., Christie, N., Edgeworth, M.
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