Palynological Project
Pollen is released from plants on a yearly basis. Much of this pollen becomes incorporated into lake sediments or peat. If conditions are correct, pollen will be preserved and can survive for thousands of years. Since the composition of the pollen that reaches the peat/lakes of today reflects the current vegetation of an area, examination and identification of fossil pollen preserved in any sample will allow a reconstruction to be attempted of the surrounding landscape as it was at the time the pollen was produced. This type of investigation is known as Palynological research and can be extremely important for archaeologists as it has describes the landscape in which people lived and how it changed over time, either through climatic changes or human interference.
Interim and final reports were published in 1993 and 1995 (see Discovery Programme reports)
