A pre‐Late Devensian pollen site from Camp Fauld, Buchan, north‐east Scotland

• Published in: New Phytologist
• Main Authors: WHITTINGTON, GRAEME, HALL, ADRIAN M., JARVIS, JACK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1993
• Subjects: Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03935.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-8137.1993.tb03935.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03935.x; https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1993.tb03935.x

SUMMARY Recent investigations at Camp Fauld in Buchan, Scotland have yielded two peat deposits of pre‐Late Devensian age. Percentage pollen diagrams are presented. One peat is radiocarbon‐dated to 34–39 ka DP, which prompts correlation with the Hengelo‐Denekamp sequence of NW continental Europe, but the pollen evidence, revealing the presence of a birch‐pine woodland, suggests an earlier stage. The second peat deposit records an open shrub‐tundra in which Bruckenthalia spiculifolia is present. The peat yielded a radiocarbon date of 40–51 ka BP, but is suspected of having been contaminated by younger carbon. That suspicion and the presence of Bruckenthalia suggest that a correlation, based on the radiocarbon date, with the Glinde interstadial, identified in NW Germany, would be incorrect. Correlation with other Scottish pre‐Late Devensian sites has proved to be difficult.