Hello,
I have been working on a site called Cloonoolish Moss
in Co. Galway (listed in IPCC "Save our boglands"
pulication). I have recently received radiocarbon dates for
this site and the suggestion is that there has either been
a peat cutting episode over the surface of the crown of the
bog or that there has been a dramatic decline ijn the
accumulation rate over the top half metre or so. Could you
possibly tell me if you have any record of this site being
cut over the surface and when it was? Also I know that
there is extensive cutting around the margin of the site as
there are peat cut faces. Does anyone know when this peat
removal took place as this may have caused the drying of
the crowns surface and therefore caused a slow down in the
accumulation rate. I would be grateful for any information
on this or other sites in Galway as they may of had a
similar history. I am nearing the end of my PhD and any
information could severely cut the number of headaches I am
having over this at the moment.
Thanks for your help,
Antony Blundell (University of Southampton)
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