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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
Fig. 1.—Section of Sample of Moorlog
(Sample No. 6).
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.