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clusively without scientific dredging, to fix the exact positions 
and depths of the outcrops of moorlog.” 
I do not know whether, at the time of writing this, Clement 
Reid knew that many of the samples contained pollen grains of 
Pinus. In the absence of more specific evidence I venture to 
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suggest that these pollen grains may supply a clue. The Scots’ 
Pine was abundant in Western Europe and in England during 
part of the Neolithic period. The oak, alder and beech followed 
in turn ; Moorlog has no evidence of these three. The pollen 
grains may have been blown from pine trees which grew in 
Neolithic times on higher ground surrounding the great fen. 
