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Climate change threatening buried UK treasures
BBC News ^ | January 26, 2022 | By Justin Rowlatt

Posted on 01/27/2022 11:49:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is threatening to destroy treasures buried in the UK as the soils that protect them dry out.

A Roman toilet seat, the world's oldest boxing glove, and the oldest handwritten letter by a woman are some of the extraordinary objects discovered in at-risk British peatlands.

It means climate change could undermine our understanding of our past, say archaeologists.

About 22,500 archaeological sites in UK may be in danger.

The problem is that changing weather patterns are drying out some peatlands - the waterlogged soils that cover about 10% of the UK.

Dr Rosie Everett, of Northumbria University, is part of a team that has been assessing the effect of climate change on peatland archaeology across the UK.

She says a host of historic sites in peatlands are under threat, covering the entire sweep of the country's history.

There are Palaeolithic pathways up to 12,000 years old, and Bronze Age burial sites as well as the remains of more modern settlements and industrial activities.

"Peatlands represent such a small part of the ecology of Britain, but they have massive potential to tell us about our past," says Dr Everett.

While an archaeologist working at a "dry" site might find 10% of what was once there, at a peatland site they may find as much as 90% of the material culture of ancient communities, say archaeologists.

"The loss of peatlands would have big implications for the understanding of the country's history but also for our climatic history and our environmental history," says Dr Everett.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cop26; g20; glasgow; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; hoax; panicporn; propaganda; scotland; scotlandyet; socialism; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/27/2022 11:49:43 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Threatening it with what? A Gun? A Knife? Ugly Words?


2 posted on 01/27/2022 11:52:03 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time’s a wastin’ there isn’t governor!! Better get busy!


3 posted on 01/27/2022 11:55:38 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Based on the whale skeletons in the Sahara desert, what did we lose there?


4 posted on 01/27/2022 11:55:41 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It seems to me that dry soils would preserve certain things better than wet soils would.


5 posted on 01/27/2022 11:56:19 AM PST by laplata
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Warm weather is wet weather.
The peat is drying out?
I guess the world is getting colder.


6 posted on 01/27/2022 11:56:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> A Roman toilet seat, the world’s oldest boxing glove, and the oldest handwritten letter by a woman... <

I’ve got to be honest. I haven’t done much to fight Climate Change. But now that I know Roman toilet seats are at risk, I promise to do more.


7 posted on 01/27/2022 11:56:36 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A Roman toilet seat. Are they claiming there has been no other climate changes in the last 2,000 years?


8 posted on 01/27/2022 11:57:45 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting who's brains are for dinner.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just when you think media propagandists have run out of “things climate change will ruin,” they find another!


9 posted on 01/27/2022 11:58:16 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Call the Time Team. They will find everything in just 3 days!


10 posted on 01/27/2022 12:00:49 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Media Control is an anagram of Delta Omicron.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m more concerned about there being sufficient peat to support the booming scotch and whisky markets.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 12:05:33 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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12 posted on 01/27/2022 12:06:45 PM PST by SteveH (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear British peatland scientists,

We believe you when you say the earth will be dead in seven years. So based on that, it’s time to shut your research down as it will all be over soon anyway. Please turn the lights out and turn in your ID badges.


13 posted on 01/27/2022 12:06:47 PM PST by trailboss800
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop climate change. For peat’s sake.


14 posted on 01/27/2022 12:09:50 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, though and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OMG, and what about Oak Island?!?!?!?!


15 posted on 01/27/2022 12:10:45 PM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WOW! Is there NOTHING climate change can’t do!?


16 posted on 01/27/2022 12:13:28 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: meatloaf

A bunch of hand written letters? 🙂


17 posted on 01/27/2022 12:15:28 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: laplata

Peat is mostly anoxic, so organic material tends to be preserved. That’s why peat is peat - it’s almost entirely vegetable fibres which have never completely decomposed.


18 posted on 01/27/2022 12:16:44 PM PST by Winniesboy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Irrational, low-IQ, dishonest, lying pieces of shit.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 12:17:07 PM PST by ConservativeInPA ("Goats are like mushrooms. Because if you shoot a duck, I'm afraid of toasters." - Joe Biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So did it dry out from climate change or because they stopped using the toilet seat on the bog?


20 posted on 01/27/2022 12:26:54 PM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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