The Ipswichian Temperate Stage

Abstract

The controversy concerning certain deposits which may or may not belong to this interglacial is presented in Chapter 7. The account which follows adopts the orthodox view that there is sufficient evidence, notably of a biological nature, to assign most if not all of these deposits to the Ipswichian. While the majority of sites referred to this temperate stage on the basis of their fossil flora and fauna have been in East Anglia, a scattering has been found in other parts of the British Isles (Figure 8.1).