Palaeochannels of the Trent Catchment

The Mapping the Palaeochannels of the Trent Catchment project commissioned by Historic England, aims to enhance the record of palaeochannels within the Trent Catchment, to create a database comparable to that created by the Trent Valley Geoarchaeology project for Derbyshire (Baker 2003), and to further improve the database by including the analysis of lidar and other remote-sensing techniques. The pilot phase of the project within Nottinghamshire had the aim of assessing the feasibility of using multiple data sources to compile a comprehensive database of the palaeochannel record of the Trent Valley and major tributaries and to establish a more focussed methodology to complete the analysis of the entire Trent catchment. The initial report (Malone and Stein 2015) focussed on the Trent Valley and its tributaries within Nottinghamshire. Stage 2 expands the methodology to the entirety of the Trent catchment.