be1ee5df-7d28-3609-a69b-2afda6b9a200 English dataset Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk pointOfContact 2021-05-06 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 Fishbourne Ferry Terminal, Isle of Wight 2017-04-13 publication chrisbut1-282574 http://oasis.ac.uk A series of seven cores was taken under geaoarchaeological supervision on the foreshore at the Fishbourne Ferry Terminal to understand the survival, character, and potential significance of the Quaternary deposit sequence that will be impacted by the proposed ferry terminal improvement work. The results confirmed that the area has largely been stripped of Holocene deposits by tidal action, exacerbated by wash created by marine traffic, leaving just beach deposits overlying the Oligocene Bedrock clay. This has removed the capping of peat which marks the end of a 'relative' drying phase/retrogression during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age prior to the later prehistoric final large incursion. Palaeo-environmental assessment of the Pollen, Diatoms and Foraminiferal/Ostracod in samples from Borehole 4 indicate a local estuarine environment which is clearly an intertidal mud, comparable with other coastal situations on the Isle of Wight. The palaeo-environmental evidence indicates probably prehistoric brackish and marine environments with fen carr in the immediate hinterland, and freshwater flowing from this, or other streams locally, into the sampled location, of probable Neolithic date. Eric Greenhough DASSH, The Archive for Marine Species and Habitat Data dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Marine archaeology SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Restrictions Apply otherRestrictions Terms and Conditions apply to reuse. English environment -1.2125 -1.2123 50.7334 50.7336 2016-09-26 2016-09-26 Allen, Mike / Butler, Chris (2016) Palaeo-environmental Assessment and Geoarchaeology of the coastal and intertidal deposits at the Fishbourne Ferry Terminal Isle of Wight, Chris Butler: Berwick Archaeology Data Service help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk distributor http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1042255 A link to the web service or dataset dataset This metadata was prepared by the creator entered into the OASIS system hosted by the Archaeology Data Service.