Summary

The form and stratigraphy of an oval peat-filled area north of Wolverhampton is investigated and interpreted as the filling of a kettle-hole formed during the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier. The fauna of the basal silt and the flora of this and the overlying gyttja and peat suggest that the infilling of the hollow did not commence until about zone III of Late-glacial time (some 11,000 years before the present) and that about 30,000 years elapsed after the retreat of the Irish Sea glacier before the kettle-hole received its first sediments.