25th November 2014, 07:35 AM
Mike.T. Wrote:Don't buy that the Iron Age population of Britain chopped all the trees down for cultivation when the population was either tiny or in many places completely non existent. Ditto the Saxon era.
Maybe this depends on your area, but 'round this part of the world I'm constantly surprised quite how dense the population was during the IA. I don't know about other parts of the country, but for this region at least I'm getting the impression that large swathes of the landscape were being occupied and managed.
I reserve the right to change my mind. It's called learning.