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Neolithic/Bronze Age deforestation in UK
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Re: Neolithic/Bronze Age deforestation in UK
Jul 01, 2018, 10:32
This is an area of discussion I for one am very interested in. I understand Lewis and Orkney, which are now completely without trees except for plantations (e.g. woodland near Stornoway) was due to excessive farming from the neolithic onwards. Along with the rich archaeology of both these places this seems to be evidence that the Northern and Western Isles around Scotland were the first areas of the British Isles to be populated.

Later the downland areas in Wiltshire ..
There is a wonderful song on Martin Simpson's recent cd 'Trails and Tribulations' called Ridgeway - written as the voice of the land it passes over and recalling when it was wild and forested (only available on the cd - which is great).
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