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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) ♦