The palaeochannel record in the Trent Valley UK: contributions towards cultural heritage management

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures

• 1 Background
  • 1.1 The Trent Valley
    • 1.1.1 Location and character
    • 1.1.2 The Pleistocene and Holocene evolution of the Trent Valley
    • 1.1.3 Human landscapes and the palaeochannel resource
  • 1.2 Cultural resource management and the palaeochannel record
  • 1.3 Research aims and rationale
• 2 Mapping Palaeochannels at the Catchment Scale: methodological considerations
  • 2.1 Techniques for mapping fluvial geomorphology
  • 2.2 'Surface-visible' palaeochannels and their potential date range
  • 2.3 The palaeochannel survey methodology
    • 2.3.1 The survey area
    • 2.3.2 Photographic sources
    • 2.3.3 Digital processing of images
    • 2.3.4 Palaeochannel 'forms'
    • 2.3.5 Other sources of data
    • 2.3.6 Text attributes
• 3 Palaeochannel Data (interactive mapping)
• 4 Results and Discussion
  • 4.1 Quantitative summary
    • 4.1.1 Raw numbers
    • 4.1.2 Frequency of palaeochannel 'forms'
    • 4.1.3 Variations in palaeochannel density
  • 4.2 Spatial variation, preservation and visibility
    • 4.2.1 The upland zone
    • 4.2.2 The Middle Trent Valley
    • 4.2.3 The Lower Trent Valley
  • 4.3 The implications of changing land-use
• 5 Conclusions
  • 5.1 Advantages of the survey methodology
  • 5.2 Undated channels: problems and potential
  • 5.3 Further work
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Archive and Photographic Sources

• Related digital archive: Steve Baker (2006) Cultural heritage management and the palaeo-environmental resource: Surveying the surface-visable palaeochannel record in the Trent Valley, UK [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1000297