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Appendix 4: term lists

Armin Schmidt and Eileen Ernenwein, 2nd edition, Archaeology Data Service / Digital Antiquity, Guides to Good Practice

Land use

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Land use.

  • Allotment
  • Arable
  • Arable and Pasture
  • Arable and Woodland
  • Archaeological Excavation
  • Built over
  • Churchyard
  • Coastland – above High Water
  • Coastland – Inter Tidal
  • Garden
  • Grassland – Pasture
  • Grassland – Undifferentiated
  • Heathland
  • Lawn
  • Mixed Rural
  • Mixed Urban
  • Moorland
  • Orchard
  • Park
  • Playing Field
  • Road
  • Waste Ground
  • Woodland

Solid geology

This is a list of terms that can be used in the field Solid Geology. It was compiled from the EH GSdb and is not a complete list of all the classifications of the BGS.

  • Ampthill and Kimmeridge Clay
  • Ashgill
  • Ashgill and Caradoc undifferentiated
  • Barton, Bracklesham & Bagshot Beds
  • Basal Conglomerate
  • Basalt, Dolerite, Camptonite and Allied Types
  • Bovey Formation, St Agnes Sands, etc.
  • Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds
  • Cambrian
  • Caradoc
  • Carboniferous/Devonian Transition Group
  • Chalk (including Red Chalk)
  • Corallian
  • Coralline Beds
  • Cornbrash
  • Devonian Andesitic and Basaltic Lavas and Tuffs, undiff.
  • Devonian undifferentiated
  • Gabbro and allied types
  • Gneiss, Mica Schist
  • Granite, Syenite, Granophyre & allied types
  • Great Oolite
  • Hamstead Beds and Bembridge Marls
  • Hastings Beds
  • Inferior Oolite
  • Kimmeridge Clay
  • Lenham Beds
  • Llandeilo
  • Llandovery
  • Llanvirn & Arenig
  • London Clay
  • Lower Cambrian
  • Lower Cretaceous undifferentiated
  • Lower Devonian
  • Lower Greensand
  • Lower Lias
  • Lower Old Red Sandstone (including Downtonian)
  • Lower Westphalian (A+B)
  • Ludlow
  • Magnesian Limestone
  • Middle Cambrian
  • Middle Devonian (England)
  • Middle Lias
  • Middle/upper Devonian undifferentiated
  • Namurian (“Millstone Grit series”)
  • Norwich Crag, Red Crag & Chillesford Clay
  • Oldhaven, Blackheath, Woolwich& Reading & Thanet Beds
  • Oolite undifferentiated
  • Oxford Clay and Kellaways Beds
  • Permian & Triassic Sandstones undifferentiated
  • Permian Basal Breccias, Sandstones and Mudstones
  • Permian Mudstones
  • Portland Beds
  • Precambrian
  • Purbeck Beds
  • Rhyolite, Trachyte, Felsite, Elvans, and allied types
  • St Erth Beds (Cornwall)
  • Torridonian Sandstone and Grit
  • Tournaisian & Visean (“Carboniferous Limestone series”)
  • Triassic Mudstones
  • Ultrabasic rock
  • Undifferentiated Gneiss of the Lewisian complex
  • Upper Cambrian, including Tremadoc
  • Upper Carboniferous undifferentiated
  • Upper Devonian & Upper Old Red Sandstone
  • Upper Greensand and Gault
  • Upper Lias
  • Upper Westphalian (C+D)
  • Weald Clay
  • Wenlock
  • Westphalian
  • Westphalian & Stephanian, undivided of “Barren Red”

Drift geology

This is a list of terms that can be used for the field Drift Geology.

  • Alluvium
  • Blown Sand
  • Boulder Clay and Morainic Drift
  • Brickearth, Mainly Loess
  • Clay with Flints
  • Colluvium
  • Crag
  • Glacial Sand and Gravel
  • Lacustrine Clays, Silts and Sands
  • Peat
  • Raised Beach and Marine Deposits
  • River Terrace Deposits
  • Sand and Gravel of Uncertain Age or Origin