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Uplands Initiative Field Projects 2011-12: <strong>Foel</strong> <strong>Goch</strong> <strong>Survey</strong> Report 24
7. RECOMMENDATIONS
7.1 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER WORK
7.1.1 It is recommended that investigation in the form of palynological sampling and peat
coring be undertaken within the study area. Sampling should take place in the boggy
areas on the south-western limits of the study area adjacent to Llyn Maen Bras
where there is potential for deep peat deposits. Sampling should also take place both
in the steep cwms surrounding the locations of ritual/funerary monuments, adjacent
to Llyn Caer Euni where there is a profusion of prehistoric activity, and around the
putative domestic sites on the west flank of Moel Emoel. This would not provide an
absolute chronology for the sites, but palynological work from peat adjacent to the
sites would be able to determine clearance episodes and periods of potential
agricultural activity in the vicinity of the sites.
7.1.2 Detailed topographic survey should be undertaken on all of the identified prehistoric
ritual/funerary cairns identified within the study area. Detailed topographic survey
could elucidate details of their construction, their surviving fabric and any later
disturbance to the monuments,. It could also shed light on their topographic setting
and the inter-relationship between each of the monuments and the wider landscape.
7.1.3 There is little scope for further recording at any of the few localised quarrying sites
within the study area. The quarries recorded in the project are all associated with
small-scale post-medieval extraction for wall construction.
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