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The Soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2017

R I Macphail
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During the summer of 1980, excavations at Shaugh Moor were extended to the Saddlesborough reave, it was hoped to establish the nature of the land boundaries which characterise this part of Dartmoor.

In this area the reave runs downslope in a south-easterly direction away from Saddlesborough and it was investigated by a number of sections at progressively lower elevations between approximately 300 and 285 metres OD. Sections in a number of trenches were studied in detail (trenches AN, AM, AL, AJ, AI, and AG; see figure 1). Profiles Ai and Aii are examples of modern soils adjacent to trenches AN and AG respectively. The soils were described,ignited to give a visual indication of their iron content and thin sections were made of material from trenches AL and AJ.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 48 , Issue S1: The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth – Environment, Context and Conclusion , 1982 , pp. 4 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1982

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