| DATE | ICE AND WEATHER | SEA
LEVEL | NAME | ZONE | VEGETATION | FAUNA | HISTORY | AGE |
Present
2500BC
5000BC
7500BC
| Warm & Wet |
Present
Level
| Sub Atlantic | zone
V111 | Arable
Farming | | | |
| | |
| First
Castles | |
| Norse
Settlement | |
Celtic
Pastoral
Farming
Peat 1cm
in 50 years
Peat 1cm in
3 years | | |
Reindeer
extinct | Picts | |
| The
Broch
Period | I
R
O
N
A
G
E |
| Cool & Dry | Sub-Boreal | zone
V11b | |
|
Bear
Wolf
Reindeer
Elk
Beaver
Boar
Great Ox
Red Dear | |
Some
Forest
Regeneration
Elm decline
in England | |
|
|
High Level
Melting
of
N American
and
Scandinavian
Ice | | B
R
O
N
Z
E |
| Warm & Wet | Atlantic | zone
V11a | | Stone
Setting
Builders |
|
| Tomb
Builders | M
E
S
O
L
I
T
H
I
C |
| |
Onset of
Peat
Formation
|
Low Level
Britain
connected
to the
Continent
but not to
Ireland | |
Northern
Lynx
extinct | First
Settlers
In
Caithness | N
E
O
L
I
T
H
I
C |
| Cool & Dry
Cold
| Boreal | zone
V1 | | |
| | |
Forest
Birch Hazel
Oak Elm
Alder | | | |
Beaver
Bear
Great Ox
Red Deer
Wolf | | |
zone
V | | |
| | Tundra
Juniper
Willow
Grass
Sedge
| | |
Final Retreat of Ice
| pre-Boreal | zone
1V | | |
| | |
| | |