6-630: The Pre-Pastonian Stage or Baventian Stage (from Easton Bavents in Suffolk ), is the name for an early Pleistocene stage of geological history in the British Isles . It precedes the Pastonian Stage and follows the Bramertonian Stage . This stage ended 1.806 Ma (million years ago) at the end of Marine Isotope Stage 65. It is not currently known when this stage started. The Pre-Pastonian Stage
12-550: Is equivalent to the Tiglian C4c Stage of Europe and the Pre-Illinoian J glaciation of the early Pre-Illinoian Stage of North America. Pollen evidence indicates that there were climatic fluctuations from cooler to warmer climates throughout this stage. This glaciology article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Easton Bavents Easton Bavents is a hamlet and former civil parish , now in
18-576: Is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Estuna . It takes the form Eston Bavent in the Charter Rolls of 1330. The first part of the name means "eastern settlement". The Feudal Aids of 1316 show that the village was then held by Thomas de Bavent, Bavent being a place near Caen in Normandy. Medieval Easton Bavents was a parish of some importance, granted a weekly market in
24-409: The 14th century, with a three-day fair on the feast day of St Nicholas of Myra (6 December). Records show the parish church , dedicated to St Nicholas, was still in use in 1639, and a rector appointed as late as 1666. However, the cliff on which the village was built collapsed. The church itself seems to have sunk under the sea in the latter part of the 17th century. A chapel dedicated to St Margaret
30-514: The Virgin also disappeared. The Battle of Solebay in the Third Anglo-Dutch War took place in 1672 off the coast of Easton Bavents, which survived as a fishing village until the 19th century. The continuing erosion of the cliffs makes the area a popular, albeit hazardous area for fossil hunters, who approach it along the beach from Southwold . The pace of erosion has averaged some 3 metres
36-652: The parish of Reydon , in the East Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk , England. Once an important village with a market, it has been much eroded by the North Sea . A map of Suffolk dating from about 1610 shows it to have been the most easterly ecclesiastical parish in England. It is now confined to a stretch of the Suffolk coast to the east of Reydon. In 1961 the parish had a population of 23. The place-name Easton Bavents
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