Monday 18 August 2014

The landscape of Lincolnshire during the last 'Ice Age'


The Late Devensian glaciation in eastern Lincolnshire, from the landscape evolution of eastern Lincolnshire (drawn by C. R. Green)

A quick post to supplement Saturday's one on the landscape evolution of eastern Lincolnshire. The following map gives a broader idea of what Lincolnshire and the surrounding region looked like about 17,000 years ago, when the glaciers of the last 'Ice Age' reached here (a topic I'll return to in more detail in the next post in my 'Brief History of the Louth Region' series). The present-day coastline is shown as a grey line; areas covered by the ice sheet are in white, areas covered by probable or possible glacial lakes are in blue, and ice- and water-free land is in green. The map was initially created for and published in my book The Origins of Louth: Archaeology and History in East Lincolnshire, 400,000 BC–AD 1086, but is presented here in colour.


Lincolnshire and the surrounding region about 17,000 years ago (drawn by C. R. Green for Origins of Louth and based on Clark et al, 2004). The present-day coastline is shown as a grey line; areas covered by the ice sheet are in white, areas covered by probable or possible glacial lakes are in blue, and ice- and water-free land is in green. It should be noted that the large glacial lake to the south of the Wash is speculative and its existence has been disputed.

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