The practice came about in consequence of this venture, and was loosely based on a Wealden custom at hop-picking time.
About 1340 Sir John de Pulteney, a London merchant and financier and four times mayor of London, constructed a splendid house of Wealden sandstone.
However, this concept is challenged by the discovery of different pollen cones from the Arkansas and English Wealden localities.
1.1Denoting a style of timber house built in the Weald in the late medieval and Tudor periods.
(中世纪及都铎王朝时代的木屋)威尔德式的
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He was talking about Cragside, that wonderful faux Wealden house in Northumberland with all the gadgets.
In the decade preceding 1348, we find a number of exceptionally large and lavish timber-framed buildings, including a giant Wealden house and a ‘skyscraper’ with a stone undercroft.
1.2Geology Relating to or denoting a series of Lower Cretaceous estuarine and freshwater deposits best exemplified in the Weald.
〔地质〕威尔德型地质的;威尔德统的
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Interestingly, regional seismic and borehole studies of the Lower Cretaceous in the English Channel indicate the presence of unconformities in the basal Wealden sediments, especially towards the basin margins.
The close proximity of the Isle of Wight-Purbeck fault zone probably also had an effect on Wealden sedimentation in the Wessex Basin, as the downthrow on these faults decreases to the west.
Because of their non-marine depositional setting, the Wealden sediments are not biostratigraphically constrained with a high degree of certainty.