Winter Issue Clothing

[Tarbicus]

this kind of thing's fun. Check out the bibliography here:
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/palynology/g ... lobib.html

80 BC - 110 AD Bjorc et al 1991 Warm climate Shetland Is, Antarctica
50 AD Godwin 1954 Somerset, England Bog Corduroy (wet period)
119 AD LaMarche & Hirschboeck 1984 growth supression of bristlecone pine, Etna, = cold
126-433 AD Nesje Kvamme 1991 Glacial Advance w. Norway, 1730±75, 1740±75
450-550 AD Wigley 1988 Global cooling (after Rothlisberger 1986)

Also:[url:135pjw1t]http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st279/st279.pdf[/url]
In north central England, archeologists have found the nettle ground-
bug thrived in the city of York in both Roman and Medieval times. Its typical habitat today is on stinging nettles in the much-warmer south of England.

Angela M. H. Schuster, “Wine Lover’s Guide to Ancient Britain,â€