Wood - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 26774 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 159.03 FAGACEAE Quercus sp | Entry Book Number | 83.1902 | |
| Artefact Name | Wood | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United Kingdom | TDWG Region | United Kingdom | ||
| Parts Held | Wood | Geography Description | Great Britain, Carlisle, Walton | ||
| Uses | WoodUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Haverfield F | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Pieces of Oak from vegetable deposit at the bottom of a Roman ditch at Walton, near Carlisle. From F Haverfield, Christchurch, Oxford. 'I am digging at a Roman fort here and have come upon a big ditch made by the Romans. It is a large thing, and some 20 feet wide as the bottom is a layer of peat, or something like peat a foot thick. In the peat we found bits of Roman pottery, a couple of Roman sandles etc. and various bits of wood. These presumably tumbled in during Roman times and the wood, represents wood then growing. Could you tell me how long the ditch is likely to have been open for a layer of vegetation a foot thick to be now discoverable? Extract from letter from Mr F Haverfield to Director August 23rd 1902 (Specimens of the wood sent, for name.) Vegetable deposits in Roman ditch at Walton. The peat referred to in Mr Haverfield's letter of August 23rd is not likely to be true peat but merely subaqueous deposit of vegetable debris such as forms on the bed of any ditch or pond of stagnan, t water. This would be derived from 1. algae and other water plants living and dying in the water. Or 2. remains of land plants which found their way into the ditch by various agencies. The rate of formation of such deposit is under ordinary conditions ve, ry slow, but it is influenced by so many local circumstances that it is impossible to form any adequate idea of the time during which the ditch at Walton must have been open to allow the accumulation of such deposit a foot thick. Signed Mr Pearson.12.IX.1, 902. Specimens of wood. These include 13 pieces of Oak (the largest specimens in the collection). 8 pieces of Birch (judging from its shape and the clay adhereing to its shaped surface, one of these was the lower end of a stake.) 2 pieces of Ash. 1 piece, of Hazel (probably) The remaining specimens are small pieces of roots. Most of them are almost certainly Birch roots. Signed as above. Both letters sent to archives. | ||||