First off thanks! Yes it's all my own work - 18 months of madness that continues .... :-)

In two weeks time I am off back down to Cork for the weekend. Last time I was there it was for a day and I saw 32 sites! You just drive, park, and walk from one field to another. It's madness! Gawd knows what a weekend will produce!

Pollen counts: Unfortunately I know of no online stuff. All this info is scattered through loads of generally unpublished excavation reports. There is a book called 'Reading the Irish Landscape' or something similar that calls heavily upon a lot of (obviously) Irish specific reports and collates all the info. I have no idea about for the UK.

My first port of call would be the local archaeology dept. or perhaps the library of the Royal Society.

If you find anything for the UK pollen counts please shout about it.

Scotts Pine: There are some mounds in Ireland that bear them, but not that many. This is mainly because even the hedgerows were ripped up for fuel in the 1800s in the famine years. The only trees (and this is literal) to survve from them are a few churchyard trees and ones that were in the occupying English's stately home gardens, where they had to employ people to keep the natives from pinching them!