Tentsmuir : : ten thousand years of environmental history / / Robert M. M. Crawford.
Tentsmuir has been a scene of human activity for over 10,000 years. It witnessed one of the earliest known occurrences in Scotland of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and has supported human activities throughout the Neolithic and Iron Age. In medieval times it was a home for the Norman nobility, and the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Limited,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (205 pages) :; color illustrations, color maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One
- Tentsmuir in pre-history
- Mesolithic Tentsmuir
- Mesolithic shell gatherers
- Norwegian Holocene Storegga Slide tsunami
- Neolithic, Bronze and Iron-age Tentsmuir
- Chapter Two
- Tentsmuir in history
- Medieval Tentsmuir
- The Normans at Leuchars
- Late Medieval Tentsmuir
- Salmon fishing rights
- Tentsmuir - a Royal hunting Forest
- Agricultural improvement
- The draining of Tentsmuir
- Malaria at Tentsmuir
- Tentsmuir's farms
- German spies at Tentsmuir
- Chapter 3
- Sand and water
- Sand and water interactions
- Afforestation of Tentsmuir
- Dune slacks
- Permanent wetlands
- Coastal accretion and longshore drift
- Coastal accretion
- Coastal accretion time-scale
- Erosion
- Long-term history of the Tentsmuir coast
- The future survival of Tentsmuir
- Chapter 4
- Tentsmuir's dunes -a changing landscape
- Dune structure and stability
- Physical versus biological fragility
- Sand dune grasses
- Plant geography at Tentsmuir
- Grey Dunes
- Woody plants on sand dunes
- Drought tolerance
- Plant survival in sand dunes
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5
- Tentsmuir's wetlands
- Dune slacks and salt Marshes
- Avoidance of anoxic stress
- Dune-slack variation
- Flood-line Alder Association
- Salt Slacks
- Lotus corniculatus Slack
- Erica tetralix slacks
- The desiccation of the slacks
- Chapter 6
- Land, people and resources
- Tentsmuir as a sporting estate
- Tentsmuir ornithology
- The Tentsmuir Grouse Moor
- Grouse Disease
- Bird migration
- 20th Century Tentsmuir
- The Afforestation and Drainage of Tentsmuir
- Tentsmuir Drainage
- Creation of Morton Lochs Nature Reserve
- Morton Lochs
- Tentsmuir Forestry
- Water table levels
- Chapter 7.
- Tentsmuir's thriving birds
- Bird habitats at Tentsmuir
- Winter visitors
- Tentsmuir's Geese
- Shore Birds
- Birds of Fresh Waters
- Birds of the forest
- Morton Lochs restored
- Tentsmuir's ornithological future
- Chapter 8.
- Tentsmuir's declining birds
- Bird losses from Tentsmuir
- Declining Wader populations
- Plovers
- Historical bird records from the Eden Estuary
- Wigeon
- Physiology of Swan-song
- Chapter 9
- Tentsmuir's mammals butterflies and moths
- Wildfowl and lead poisoning
- Seals
- Lepidoptera
- Rodentia
- Chapter 10
- Saving the Wilderness
- Tentsmuir's origins
- Creating a Wilderness Reserve
- Ecological history of Tentsmuir Point
- Biological birch control
- Dune invasion by Scots Pine
- Onset of Coastal Erosion
- The Great Slack
- Erosion at the Eden Estuary
- Ecological restoration
- Conservation and Education
- Environmental recording
- Tentsmuir in the Future
- References
- Back cover.