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Table 8. Whitesheet Hill: Pollen counts from the ditch recut. 
(Full counts only undertaken on samples at 78, 96 and 100cm) 
context 1319 
depth cm 44 54 64 
TREES 
Betula 
Pinus 
Quercus 
Fagus - . - 
Tilia 2 - - 
Alnus 
SHRUBS 
Corylus type 3 - - 
Salix - - - 
Calluna - - - 
HERBS 
Ranunculus type - - - 
Medicago type - - - 
Trifolium type - - - 
Poterium sanguisorba - - - 
Convolvulus - . - 
Scabiosa - - - 
Plantago lanceolata 1 - 1 
Plantago major type - 1 - 
Liguliflorae 77 10 21 
Bidens type 
Centaurea 
Sagittaria 
Gramineae 
Cyperacaea - 
Unident./degraded - - . 
Ne! 
a 
' 
APF (pollen grains/ml) - - - 
pollen sum 100 12 22 
SPORES 
Pteridium 16 5 
Dryopteris type 4 
Polypodium 9 6 9 
Sphagnum 1 
Pre-Quaternary - 1 
Spore sum 32 17 15 
1328 
78 &8 96 100 
i 4 3 ' 
5 1 - 3 
1 1 5 3 
: 2 2 1 
- - 3 
- 3 1 Z 
= ] = = 
1 1 - - 
- 1 1 1 
1 = 3 = 
- 1 1 1 
l < £ = 
s il l 2 
- - 2 1 
8 7 - 12 
1 1 - - 
168 66 64 45 
= 1 oS = 
11 11 17 28 
- - 3 3 
1743 - 1340 2132 
200 100 101 100 
88 19 29 33 
26 9 30 39 
12 10 5 15 
- iI = = 
l ms = = 
127 39 64 87 
including Pinus, Quercus, Fagus, Tilia and Alnus, 
and by the dominance of herbaceous taxa. Pinus is 
likely to originate from a long distance away and 
may be over-represented in these poor pollen 
preserving conditions. The presence of tree pollen 
and especially that of Quercus indicates the possible 
existence of some woodland although not in the 
vicinity of the enclosure. 
Alnus is noted in a number of samples and 
undoubtedly relates to local alder carr communities 
in the Stour valley, 0.5km to the north-west of the 
enclosure. Small numbers of Tilia pollen grains are 
found at 44cm. Whilst this may be residual from 
earlier woodland, it is likely that some Tilia 
woodland remained in the region since it has been 
demonstrated that such woodland was widespread 
in areas of southern England from c. 7000 BP until 
its asynchronous disappearance through later 
prehistoric forest clearance (Turner 1962; Scaife 
1980; Greig 1982). 
Hinton (below) and Gale (above) have recorded 
a substantial number of Corylus nut fragments from 
