I just wanted to post a little note to publicise the fact that the Festival of British Archaeology 2009 is now running. The Festival is a fortnight-long series of events all around the country which involves local authorities, museums, community archaeology groups, archaeological contractors, and national bodies, especially the Council for British Archaeology.
Yesterday was Yeovil’s [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Festival of British Archaeology
Posted in outreach, tagged archaeology, outreach on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A resident alien snail from Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Posted in ecology, shells, snails, tagged Cambridgeshire, introductions, Roman, snails, zooarchaeology on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In this post I talked briefly about finding the mid-twentieth century introduction Hygromia cinctella Draparnaud 1801 in Yeovil in Somerset. Back in May I was digging in Cambridgeshire, when I came across these (modern) shells of another introduction, Cernuella virgata Da Costa 1778:
C. virgata is a somewhat older resident than H. cinctella, it’s probably a [...]
Shell Architecture Up Close
Posted in photography, shells, snails, tagged photography, shells, snails on July 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In my opinion, molluscs are quite impressive looking things, and that is no less true of the smaller snails as it is octopi and giant clams. Vertigo pygmaea Draparnaud 1801 is a holarctic land snail often found in dry calcareous grassland and on dunes, but never in wooded areas. Inside the mouth of the shell [...]
