Talk:River Waveney

Prehistory

It was an import trade route and had a pre-roman road/jetty -see here. Malick78 (talk) 07:57, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Removal of unverified material

I would like to suggest the removal of the following.

It is thus claimed that during periods of heavy rainfall Norfolk can be considered to be an island. The explanation of this oddity is that the valley in which the rivers rise was formed, not by these rivers but by water spilling from Lake Fenland. This was a periglacial lake of the Devensian glacial, fifteen or twenty thousand years ago. The ice sheet closed the natural drainage from the Vale of Pickering, the Humber and The Wash so that a lake of a complex shape formed in the Vale of Pickering, the Yorkshire Ouse valley, the lower Trent valley and the Fenland basin. This valley was its spillway into the southern North Sea basin, thence to the English Channel basin.

I thought I would find some refs to enable me to remove the citation needed tags, but only found evidence that the whole thing is a bit tentative. See for instance, Godwin, H; Tallantire, P A. "Studies in the post-glacial history of British Vegetation" (PDF). University of Cambridge. p. 286. and Clark, C D; et al. "Map and GIS database of glacial landforms and features related to the last British Ice Sheet" (PDF). White Rose University Consortium (Leeds, Sheffield and York). pp. 20–21. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first= (help) Bob1960evens (talk) 16:54, 26 August 2012 (UTC)