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| − | .{{Road or Location | + | '''THE CHILTERN HILLS''' |
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| + | Recommended reading “The Chilterns” by Leslie W Hepple & Alison M Doggett. Published by Phillimore | ||
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| + | '''Pre 70,000 BC. ''' Hunter Gatherers. Left no noticeable impact | ||
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| + | '''Last Ice Age.''' Caused deeply frozen ground. Thawing surface ice could not penetrate the ground and running water caused rapid erosion to form deep valleys – the well-known Chiltern ‘Bottoms’. Eg. Highwood Bottom and Flowers Bottom in Lacey Green parish. | ||
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| + | '''10,000 BC The Mesolithic Age'''. Trees began to colonise and new Hunter Gatherers came. They used flints for spearheads and axes to make clearings and for hunting. Nuts and fruit could be found. Flints are still found in chalk hills left after the ice age. | ||
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| + | '''6,600 BC ''' Britain became separated from Europe | ||
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| + | '''Neolithic Age. ''' Traces of occupation to be found. | ||
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| + | '''3,500 BC ''' Permanent Settlements and Cultivation was beginning. | ||
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| + | '''Bronze Age'''. Farmers cleared scrub woodland and worked fields and kept animals. Traces of their occupation is now to be found. | ||
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| + | '''1,000 BC Iron Age''' | ||
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| + | '''43 AD to 410 AD The Romans'''. A well-ordered Romano-British Population. | ||
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| + | '''410 AD Dark Ages begin. Subsistence agriculture ''' | ||
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| + | '''410 AD to 1066 AD. Anglo-Saxon '''.{{Road or Location | ||
|Map Source=The Chilterns, Buckinghamshire | |Map Source=The Chilterns, Buckinghamshire | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:51, 29 August 2022
THE CHILTERN HILLS
Recommended reading “The Chilterns” by Leslie W Hepple & Alison M Doggett. Published by Phillimore
Pre 70,000 BC. Hunter Gatherers. Left no noticeable impact
Last Ice Age. Caused deeply frozen ground. Thawing surface ice could not penetrate the ground and running water caused rapid erosion to form deep valleys – the well-known Chiltern ‘Bottoms’. Eg. Highwood Bottom and Flowers Bottom in Lacey Green parish.
10,000 BC The Mesolithic Age. Trees began to colonise and new Hunter Gatherers came. They used flints for spearheads and axes to make clearings and for hunting. Nuts and fruit could be found. Flints are still found in chalk hills left after the ice age.
6,600 BC Britain became separated from Europe
Neolithic Age. Traces of occupation to be found.
3,500 BC Permanent Settlements and Cultivation was beginning.
Bronze Age. Farmers cleared scrub woodland and worked fields and kept animals. Traces of their occupation is now to be found.
1,000 BC Iron Age
43 AD to 410 AD The Romans. A well-ordered Romano-British Population.
410 AD Dark Ages begin. Subsistence agriculture
410 AD to 1066 AD. Anglo-Saxon .
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| Map Source | The Chilterns, Buckinghamshire |
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