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This 9 page paper examines Romney Marsh: an area in Kent, South East England which has seen the land rise and fall creating and then reclaiming land. The paper explores evolution of the landscape over 2000 years and how humans and the landscape have evolved. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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the coast and stretches to 9 miles inland. Today this is a wetland that is sparsely populated with a great deal of fertile reclaimed land and home to the
well known Romney Marsh Sheep. However, this is also a stretch of land that has changed a great deal over the last 2,000 years.
Romney Marsh has a documented history which shows a rising and falling of the land levels, but the actual rises and falls are more difficult to establish. In
this area the records of the late Holocene changes in the sea level are absent possibly as a result of the diverse environmental factors that impact on the sedimentation in
the estuary areas and the drift aligned barrier (Plater et al, 1999). The identification of the different changes over time have been established using a range of disciplines. These have
included the use of records and old maps, but also techniques such as mineral magnetism, diatoms and stratigraphy (Plater et al, 1999). To consider the history over the last
2,000 years it will help to briefly put this into a larger context. In the Mesolithic, between 8300 - 5500 BCE1 the area was underwater about 40 foot lower than
the present level, bordered by hills which are now inland. The gravel barrier was in place and moving landward moving gravel in form the English Channel (Long et al, 2002).
In the Neolithic between 5500 BCE - 2300 BCE the land rises to about 40 foot above sea level (3000 BCE) (Long et al, 2002). This time saw the water
and the salt drain away from the land and the formation of peat and forests, the remnants of this can be seen today as a submerged forest (Long et al,
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