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• 'Scorpidium turgescens' Lake; moss sample.
• ? Mousterian (Somme Valley Terrace France) (M. Paleolithic)
• ? Nardus (Cranbrook)
• ?Bog Oak
• Abies balsamea (Itasca)
• Acrocladium peat ♦
• Agrostis palustris? (Hockham)
• Aira flexuesa (Kinderscout)
• Amblystegium peat ♦
• Andromeda leaves and stems ♦
• Aquatic mud peat (Godwin's Piece, Westhay)
• Aquatic Sphagnum peat (Willis's Piece, Somerset) (top Grenz) ♦
• Archaeological specimens from Professor Godwin
• axe remnants (Ehenside) (Neolithic)
• Bark fragments (Dewar's Track A, Shapwick Heath)
• Basal silty clay (Risley Moor) ♦
• base of zone III (Whitrig) ♦
• Beaver chip of Populus
• Betula (R.B.) (Aberystwyth)
• black sandstone (Cromer beach) ♦
• Blanket bog (Dartmoor) ♦
• blanket bog (Lambden Valley, Cheviots) ♦
• blanket bog (Skye) ♦
• Blanket bog peat (Lewis) ♦
• Blanket bog Scirpus-Molinia (Brefi Head) ♦
• blanket bog-? Molinia peat (Dartmoor) ♦
• Bog Iron Ore (Dersingham) ♦
• Boulder clay (Hoxne) ♦
• Brasenia mud ((Netherlands)) ♦
• breiss (Cromer beach) ♦
• Brushwood with clay (Liassic?) ♦
• Buried oak (Holme Fen)
• Buxus leaf
• Calamagrostis canescens (Hockham)
• Calamagrostis epigejos (Hockham)
• calc. mud + Equisetum (Nazeing) (L.G.) ♦
• Calcareous concretions (Thatcham) ♦
• calcareous mud (Skelsmergh) ♦
• Calluna vulgaris (Kinderscout)
• Calluna-Eriophorum (Meare) ♦
• Calluna-Eriophorum (Shapwick) ♦
• Calluna-Eriophorum-Sphagnum
• Calluna-Sphagnum-Cladonia (Athlone RBP) ♦
• Camel coal? ♦
• Carbonised grain barley and onion couch (late Bronze)
• Cardium-Pinus (Ramsey) ♦
• Carex limosa (Komosse)
• Carex limosa (Rannoch)
• Carex limosa
• Carex paniculata (Hockham (upper parts))
• Carex paniculata (Hockham (lower parts))
• Carex pseudo cyperus (Hockham (upper parts))
• Carex pseudo cyperus (Hockham (lower parts))
• Carex stricta (elata) (Hockham)
• Carya? ovata fruits
• Cave earth (Derbyshire) ♦
• chalk marl (Hawes water, Lancs.) ♦
• Charred grain (Meare Lake)
• Charred pile (Lake de Chalain, Jura)
• Clactonian flake lower gravels (Swanscomb Barnfield Pit)
• Cladium mariscus (Lt. Ouse Valley (lower parts))
• Cladium mariscus (Lt. Ouse Valley (upper parts))
• Cladium mariscus peat (Shapwick Heath) ♦
• Cladium peat (Shapwick Station, Somerset)
• Cladium-Hypnum peat (Decoy Pool Drove, Somerset) ♦
• Cladonia alpestre
• Cladonia rangiferina
• clay (Kentmere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian zone I) ♦
• Clay (St. Bees) (late-glacial zone 8) ♦
• clay (Praetiglian above Renverian) ♦
• Clay (L-G Dutch) (Dryas) ♦
• Clay from ditch (Cross roads 500 yds. North of Brook Farm)
• Clay peat ♦
• Clays (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• clays (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• Cones (Kieselgur pit, Germany)
• Copralite, carnivore (Coygin cave) ♦
• Coralline crag (Sutton, Suffolk)
• Coralline crag with Echinus Woodwardii
• core (Windermere) ♦
• core 3 (Hoxne) ♦
• Cromer forest bed detritus mud (Overstrand J.) ♦
• Cromer forest bed sub-peat (Ostend E.) ♦
• Cromer till
• Decodon verticellata var. laevigatus
• Diatomite (Glen Berg)
• Diatomite (Toomebridge, Newferry, Eire) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• diatomite (Scotland) (Aviemore) ♦
• Diatomite (Kentmere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Diatomite (Kentmere)
• Diatomite (burnt) (Kentmere) (1951) ♦
• Diatomite + silty detritus (Kentmere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Diatomite marl clay (Windermere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian (zone 4))
• dolerite (Cromer beach) ♦
• E. vaginatum in old Calluna-Sphagnum peat (Westhay) ♦
• early post-glacial Penkridge (Birmingham) ♦
• Eleocharis palustris (Wicken)
• Elk droppings
• Ephedra distachya
• Equiesetum peat in statu nascendi (Loch Mealt, Skye) ♦
• Equisetum diatom mud (Kentmere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Equisetum limosum (Hockham)
• Equisetum peat (Kentmere) ♦
• Erica vagans
• Eriocaulon peat in statu nascendi (Sligachan, Skye) ♦
• Eriocaulon septangulare (Galway)
• Eriocaulon septangulare (Kerry)
• Eriophorum augustifolium
• Eriophorum basal blanket peat (Kinderscout) ♦
• Eriophorum vaginatum (Kinderscout)
• Eriophorum vaginatum
• Eriophorum vaginatum and Molinia caerulea ♦
• Eriophorum vaginatum peat (Somerset) ♦
• Eriophorum-Sphagnum peat (Meare) ♦
• Eriophorum? augustifolium (Kinderscout)
• Eroded hummocks showing bases of Schoenus nigricans ♦
• Erratic from chalky boulder clay ♦
• Estuarine Bed of C.F.B. series ♦
• Estuarine clay (Nar valley) (Hoxne IG) ♦
• Estuarine clay with Cardium edule
• Fen peat showing aeration ♦
• Festuca? ovina (Cranbrook)
• fine detritus mud (Scaleby) (zone III) ♦
• fine grained gneiss (Cromer beach) ♦
• fine mud (N.E. Polder) (interglacial) ♦
• flakes (Somme Valley Terrace France) (? Upper Paleolithic)
• Flints (Breckland)
• Flints (Crayford)
• Fomes (Star Carr, Seamer) ♦
• Foot board ( Barton Broad)
• Fossilferous silt with leaves of dwarf Salix (Broome, Norfolk) ♦
• Fossiliferous marl (Sidgewick Avenue, Cambridge) ♦
• Fossilised Taxus wood (Cromer Forest Bed)
• Fraxinus ( Chippenham)
• Fresh Sphagnum cymbifolium peat (Decoy Pool Wood) ♦
• Fresh Sphagnum cymbifolium peat (Shapwick) ♦
• fresh Sphagnum peat (Trackway site, Shapwick Heath) ♦
• Gipping till
• Glacial gravel cemented by Fe2O3 and MnO ♦
• Glacial laminated clay (St. Albans) ♦
• Gravel (Hoxne) ♦
• Grenz (Tregaron) ♦
• Gun flint
• Gyttja (Hawks tor) ♦
• Hazel poles (Somerset track)
• Hazel track Toll Gate House (Westhay)
• Hedera helix (Chippenham)
• highly humified peat (Witherslack) ♦
• Highly humified Sphagnum Calluna (Somerset) ♦
• Highly humified Sphagnum Calluna (Witherslack) ♦
• highly humified Sphagnum-Calluna peat (Shapwick Heath)
• Honeygore 3
• Horse tooth (Hoxne) (Pre-Gipping)
• Hottinger breccia (Innsbruck) (Sept 1954) ♦
• Hottinger breccia leaf imprint (1954) ♦
• hottinger breccia pine needles (1954) ♦
• Hoxne
• Hypnum and Dwarf Willow (Hawks Tor) ♦
• Hypnum peat (Decoy Pool Drove, Somerset) ♦
• Interglacial (Kieselgur? Luneburg Heath) ♦
• Interglacial (Histon Road) ♦
• Interglacial estuarine clay (Germany) (Holsteinian?)
• Juncus squarrosus (Kinderscout)
• Kauri gum (Miocene) ♦
• Lake clays (Loch Fada, Isle of Skye)
• Laminated aquatic peat of 1st flooding horizon (Godwin's Piece) ♦
• Laminated interglacial clay mud (Marks Tey, Essex) (Hoxnian) ♦
• Larix polonica
• late-glacial (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• Leaf of Quercus sp. (Hoxne IG bed E)
• Leafy clay (Whitrigg, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian (zone II)) ♦
• Lichens from dead Calluna hummock
• lignite (Newton Abbot, Devon) (Tertiary) ♦
• Limestone with striae (North America) ♦
• Limonite (Fens) ♦
• loamy soil (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• Loess ♦
• Loess (Breckland)
• Lower zone II (Lunds) ♦
• Lowestoft till
• Mammoth tooth (nr. Bedford) (Post-Gipping)
• Marine clay (St. Erth)
• marine silt (Normandy) (Flandrian)
• Marine-estuaine. Pholas- bored wood (Lower Cretaceous)
• Marl (Nazeing) ♦
• Marl / wood peat (Nazeing) ♦
• Menyanthes peat (Temple Bridge, Icklingham) ♦
• Menyanthes trifoliata (Hockham Mere, Norfolk, UK)
• Mesolithic (Flixton, Newferry, Bann.)
• microgranite (Cromer beach) ♦
• Microvarves (Windermere) ♦
• middle gravels (Swanscomb Barnfield Pit)
• Molinia coerulea
• Moorlog (Blakeney) ♦
• morraine below Hottinger breccia (Mindel) ♦
• Moss peat (Neasham) (Allerod) ♦
• Moss remains
• mud and peat (N. Germany) (Interglacial) ♦
• Myrica and Eriophorum peat (Shapwick St.) ♦
• Nardus stricta (Kinderscout)
• Narthecium ossiforagum
• Narthecium ossifragum
• Necron mud (Hockham Mere, Norfolk) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Neede Interglacial (Holland)
• Neolithic flakes (Newferry, Bann.)
• Nuphar and Nymphaea rhizomes ♦
• Oak pile (Nidon's Track) (Late Bronze Age)
• Old Calluna-Sphagnum-Eriophorum peat (Somerset) ♦
• Old Eriophorum - Calluna Sphagnum peat ♦
• Old Sphagnum (Tregaron) (below Grenz) ♦
• Osmunda rhizome
• Oxycoccus quadripetalus in fresh Sphagnum peat ♦
• Oysters from Nar valley clay (Norfolk) (Hoxnian)
• Palludella peat (Darlington) ♦
• Peat (Farne Islands)
• peat (Utrecht) (LG) ♦
• Peat (Roman pot) ♦
• Peat (Farne Islands)
• peat (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• peat forming plants (Tregaron)
• Peat from foreshore (Holme-next-the-Sea) ♦
• Peat with Cladium rhizomes (Shapwick 1963) ♦
• Pebbles of peat (Holkham Beach, Norfolk)
• Phalaris arundinacea (Hockham (dupl.))
• Phalaris arundinacea (Hockham)
• Phragmites communis (Wicken)
• Phragmites communis (Ham Brooks, Kent)
• Phragmites peat (Whixall Moss) ♦
• Phragmites peat + Nuphar Nymphaea ♦
• Picea abies cones (Chelford)
• Picea cones and wood (Chelford) ♦
• Picea excelsior (Cromer Forest Bed)
• Picea glauca cones and needles (Itasca)
• Picea mariana (29000 years BP)
• Pile from Dewar's Track (Viper's Track, Shapwick)
• Pine (Chippenham)
• pine bark from Arch level (Seamer)
• Pine cone (Somerset)
• Pine cones (Thatcham) (Mesolithic) ♦
• Pine cones (Eroded) (March, Cambs)
• Pinus ( Lough Shannoch, Co. Down)
• Pinus banksiana (Itasca)
• Pinus needles and cones
• Pinus pinea (Roman well, Low Ham)
• Plants ( Poland) (Pliocene-Pleistocene)
• Polytrichum (Risby Moss)
• Polytrichum strictum and Empetrum nigrum
• porphyrite (Cromer beach) ♦
• Post-glacial (Kentmere) ♦
• Pumice (Mussel Bay, N.E. Ireland)
• quartz porphyry (Cromer beach) ♦
• quartz-felspar-biatile schint (Cromer beach) ♦
• quartzite (Cromer beach) ♦
• quartzite (Cromer beach) ♦
• quartzite (Cromer beach) ♦
• raised beach sand and gravel (Eastbourne)
• Raised bog (Meare Heath) ♦
• Raised bog peat + Scheuchzeria (Shapwick) ♦
• Raised bog peat + Trichophorum caespitosum ♦
• Raised bog transition (Woodwalton Fen.) ♦
• Ranunculus lingua (Hockham Mere, Norfolk, UK)
• Raw humus with wood rootlets etc. (Shapwick) ♦
• red sandstone (Cromer beach) ♦
• Regeneration after retardation (Tregaron) ♦
• Regeneration complex Calluna Sphagnum ♦
• Rhacomitrium canescens (Lakenheath)
• Rhacomitrium peat ♦
• Rhacomitrium peat (Helsington Moss) ♦
• Rhaxella Chert Field surface nr. (Barrington) ♦
• rhomb porphyry (Cromer beach) ♦
• Roman pottery (the Fens)
• Roman pottery (Lullingstone villa)
• Salix bearing mud (Nazeing, Essex MB) (Late Glacial) ♦
• Salix bearing mud (Nazeing, Essex (AB 4)) (Late Glacial) ♦
• Salt marsh alluvium (Holme)
• Salt marsh peat (New England) ♦
• sandstone (Cromer beach) ♦
• sandstone (Cromer beach) ♦
• Scheuchzeria - Scorpidium Calluna peat (Shapwick)
• Scheuchzeria and Sphagnum imbricatum (Willis's Piece) ♦
• Scheuchzeria at contact with upper Calluna-Sphagnum peat ♦
• Scheuchzeria palustris (Finland)
• Scheuchzeria palustris
• Scheuchzeria palustris (Rannoch)
• Scheuchzeria palustris (Westhay, Somerset) ♦
• Scheuchzeria palustris
• Scheuchzeria palustris upper peat (Shapwick)
• Scheuchzeria peat (Somerset) ♦
• Scheuchzeria peat (Somerset Levels) ♦
• Scheuchzeria peat over old Calluna-Sphagnum surface
• Scheuchzeria upper peat (Somerset) ♦
• Schoenus nigricans (Lt. Ouse Valley (lower parts))
• Schoenus nigricans (Lt. Ouse Valley (upper parts))
• Scirpus caespitosum Calluna (Somerset) ♦
• Scirpus caespitosus
• Scirpus caespitosus
• Scirpus caespitosus in Sphagnum-Calluna peat (Willis's Piece) ♦
• Scirpus lacustris (Wicken)
• Scirpus maritimus
• Scirpus maritimus tuberous rhizomes (Weybourne)
• Scorpidium scorpidiodes peat ( Holme Fen) ♦
• Scorpidium scorpiode Acrocladium gigantum (Holme Fen)
• Section of peat from near the surface of an ombrogenous bog ♦
• Sections of erratics
• Sedge peat (Wicken) ♦
• Sediment (Pierreville Canada) (Pleistocene)
• shale (Hoxne) (Hoxnian) ♦
• Shapwick Moor ♦
• Shell breccia (Somerset)
• Shell marl (Bleke) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Shelly clay (Godney, Somerset) (Holocene / Flandrian) ♦
• Shore - pebbles? ♦
• Shore pebbles lignite (Tertiary) ♦
• Short cycle regeneration complex peat (Godwin's Piece) ♦
• silt (Moorthwaite) (zone 1A) ♦
• silty clay (Skelsmergh) ♦
• Silty Phragmites mud
• Slane or Loy ( Ireland)
• Sphagnum /Molinia-Calluna peat (Cater's Beam) ♦
• Sphagnum and Dryopteris Fen (Ramsay) ♦
• Sphagnum and wood peat (Glassmoor) ♦
• Sphagnum augustifolium/acutifolium Ledum palustre
• Sphagnum bands (Meare) ♦
• Sphagnum fuscum
• Sphagnum imbricatum (Shapwick) ♦
• Sphagnum imbricatum (Borth Bog)
• Sphagnum imbricatum peat (Cheshire) ♦
• Sphagnum imbricatum peat (Dewar's Track, Somerset) ♦
• Sphagnum imbricatum peat above Calluna-Sphagnum peat ♦
• Sphagnum imbricatum regeneration complex peat ♦
• Sphagnum inundatum ♦
• Sphagnum papillosum rubellum pulchrum
• Sphagnum papillosum with Odontoschisma Sphagni
• Sphagnum peat (Woodwalton) ♦
• Sphagnum peat with primary penetration of Cladium roots ♦
• Sphagnum plumulosum
• Sphagnum pulchrum
• Sphagnum rubellum
• Sphagnum tenellum
• Sphagnum tenellum
• Sphagnum-Calluna peat (Dewar's Track, Somerset)
• Sphagnum-Calluna-Cladonia peat (Tregaron) ♦
• Sphagnum-Calluna-Eriophorum (Shapwick) ♦
• Sphagnum-Drepanocladus-Sphagnum pool peat ♦
• Sphagnum-fuseum peat (East Sweden) ♦
• Sphagnum/fen peat (Ely) ♦
• Stake embedded in Sphagnum-Calluna-Eriophorum peat ♦
• Stake embedded in Sphagnum-Calluna-Eriophorum peat ♦
• Stakes of Fagus (Shapwick Moor) (Bronze Age)
• Taper of top clay Barrow (North end of Eastern Drove)
• Taxus (Wimblington)
• Tegaron highly humified Sphagnum-Calluna ♦
• Tills (E. Lancs.) ♦
• Tills (Holderness) ♦
• Timber from prehistoric trackway showing axe marks
• Tourmaline grit (Tuddenham Heath) ♦
• Trackway (Shapwick Heath) (Late Bronze Age)
• Trapa natans fruits
• Tregaron highly humified Sphagnum peat ♦
• Tregaron less humified Sphagnum-Calluna ♦
• Tregaron Molinia peat + wood ♦
• Trichophorum caespitosum peat (Somerset) ♦
• Triglochin maritimum - rhizome in salt marsh silt (?Holme)
• Triglochin palustre (Wicken)
• Tufa (Iceland)
• turf (Honeygore Track)
• Turf live from barrow (St. Asaph) (Bronze Age)
• Ugg mere ♦
• Unhumified Sphagnum peat ♦
• unhumified Sphagnum-Calluna (Witherslack) ♦
• unusually pure Sphagnum peat (Shapwick) ♦
• Upper and Lower Sphagnum peat (Shapwick)
• upper brown mud (Lunds) ♦
• Upper peat (Somerset)
• Upper Sphagnum peat (Slate Hill, Witherslack) ♦
• upper stony head (Lunds) ♦
• Upper unhumified Sphagnum imbricatum ♦
• Vaccinium myrtillus (Kinderscout)
• Vaccinium oxycoccus peat (Logmoor, Ljubjana, Yugoslavia) ♦
• Vaccinium vitis - idaea (Padley Wood)
• Varved clay (Victoria cave, nr. Settle) ♦
• Varved clay (Windermere, Cumbria) (Holocene / Flandrian (zone 3)) ♦
• Varved clay (Vorgsteot, Thuriugia) (Elster I.) ♦
• varved clay (Aviemare, Scotland) ♦
• Varved clay fresh water diatactic type ♦
• Varved late-glacial silt (S. Finland) ♦
• vein quartz (Cromer beach) ♦
• Vivianite (iron orthophosphate) (Fawley) (Pollen zone VIIa)
• Vivianite from Anglo-Saxon ditch (Winchester)
• Waste flake (Langdale axe factory) (late Neolithic)
• Wood (in formalin) (Viper's Crannog 'B', Somerset)
• Wood (in formalin) (Viper's Crannog 'A', Somerset)
• Wood dredged up (Southampton)
• Wood for part II class
• Wood from Bronze Age track (Shapwick Heath)
• wood peat (Tregaron) ♦
• Wood peat (Borth) ♦
• Wood peat (Meare) ♦
• Wood peat Swamp forest (W. Malaya) ♦
• Wood samples from wood layer - upper peat (Hawks' Tor)
• Young Sphagnum? Imbricatum (Tregaron) ♦