A group of British Quaternary interglacial deposits. The Flandrian can be dated by radiocarbon, and ranges from 10,000 bp (the end of the Devensian) up to the present day (seeTable 6, page 419). These deposits represent the latest Quaternary interglacial stage, equivalent to the Holocene epoch. As well as sediments similar to those of previous interglacials, the Flandrian includes deposits on archaeological sites which contain Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Dark Age, medieval and more recent artefacts.
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