Hidden Histories - June Forest Church

For the June Forest church we met at Moonhills Car Park on Moonhills Plain, part of the Beaulieu Heath. 

Heath is a human managed habitat - the original landscape here was lightly wooded oak, pine, holly etc on the very variable sandy/clay/gravelly soil of the New Forest.

Coming from the shade and shelter of the forest into the open expanse of the heath is a significant change in the way the landscape, looks, feels and sounds. In this session we considered the landscape before the Bronze age clearances. Underneath the burial mounds of the ancient first settlers lie the soils of Bronze Age times, preserving - through tiny pollen grains - the stories of a different landscape and how it changed through time.

This session is all about pollen and you can hear more and see more by following this link to the session information and sound track.