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From
the end of the Ice Age to the birth of a village
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10,000
BC
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Ice age ends leaving a cold landscape of boulder clay. |
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9,000
BC
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Shirdley Hill sand blows about, filling the hollows of the tundra landscape. |
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8,000
BC
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The climate warms. Birch and Scots Pine trees grow. |
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7,000
BC
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Oak trees predominate. |
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6,000
BC
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Drainage to the west is impeded. Peat begins to form. |
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3,
000
BC
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Warm period. (Probably warmer than at present.) Sea level rises, but not to the level it is now. Some evidence of human settlement in the district. (A stone axe was found at Cliffs Farm in 1936.) |
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1,000
BC
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To the west of the farm is peat swamp. To the east is probably oak forest. |
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45
AD - 300 AD
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Roman occupation, although no Roman finds have turned up in the immediate area. |
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1086
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Doomsday survey shows the area to be little developed. |
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1250
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First reference to the village of Mawdesley (meaning 'field of Maud' or 'Maud's lea'.) |