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The
Lincolnshire Wolds combines a dramatic western scarp,
rolling chalk uplands with steep-sided dry valleys and
former sea cliff on the eastern edge.
The base for
this diverse landscape lies beneath our feet - the geology.
Rocks are the solid geology, such as chalk, limestone and
sandstone that were laid down in the Cretaceous period,
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Gaumer Hill, a chalk capped
outlier - off the Bluestone Heath Road |
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The Archaeology of the Wolds
The Lincolnshire Wolds are rich in archaeology of all
periods from the earliest Stone Age to recently disused Cold
War military sites. The downloadable pdf file on the right
is an essay entitled 'The Wolds before AD 1000' that
discusses the archaeology of the Lincolnshire Wolds from the
Palaeolithic to the late Anglo-Saxon period.
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The Wolds before AD 1000
File size (72k) |
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From being
under a tropical sea, then covered in ice, to eventually
becoming the highest eastern point between Yorkshire and
Kent, the Wolds landscape that we see today has undergone
immense change
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You can request a 'Geology of the Lincolnshire
Wolds' leaflet from our publications page |
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Red Hill Nature Reserve
(insert -
close-up of red chalk)
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