A radiocarbon dated pollen diagram from Hallowell Moss, near Durham City, indicates that it was not until Romano-British times that man had much effect on the forests of the area. Organized clearance and farming in this marginal frontier zone of the Roman Empire was on a scale unparalleled in history until recently. During Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval times
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