EXTRACTS from "PALAEOLITHIC SCOTLAND"

COURTESY of  "ONLINE ARCHAEOLOGY" 

The Rhynie Chert is a petrified Palaeo-wetland/swamp.

It lies about 25 miles to the SW of our excavations at a

similar depth below the topsoil as our hidden Horizon.

"The Rhynie Chert is c.400,000,000 years old"

Reference to Dr. Fitzpatrick's paper to Nature (previous Blog)

will give the moraine limit of northerly transgression of the  "Riss".

                           

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(Please note the carbonised root casts in this photograph)

(THEY DID NOT OCCUR ABOVE THE LITHICS!)

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We are in the process of trying to achieve funding for the dating of the soils which we exposed via the application of Dr. Fitzpatrick's paper to "Nature" and the independent private, amateur;  investigations which I made around Ellon (Buchan) and on the Moss of Cruden (Buchan). However it is not easy as, being an amateur my status apparently precludes me from completing any forms which might provide us with funding.