Pollen Diagrams from Holderness, North Humberside

Two pollen diagrams from Holderness, North Humberside, covering the Late Devensian substage and the Flandrian stage, are presented. Radiocarbon dating of the Late Devensian sediments at one site allowed the tentative estimation of pollen influx figures. The inferred vegetational history of the Late Devensian in Holderness appears to fit into place along a gradient of increasing oceanicity from east to west across northern Europe and a northsouth temperature gradient through eastern England. For the Flandrian stage regional pollen assemblage zones were constructed for Holderness. The vegetational history of the region was established through a comparison of the pollen profiles of the two distinctly different sites, one a valley mere and the other a kettle hole.