This week non-native species of land snail have been on my mind a lot, as I was analysing an archaeological asssemblage which contained some Cornu aspersum Müller 1774, a species usually described as having been introduced back in Roman times. Walking in Yeovil this morning, I spotted a shell I had not seen locally before. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Somerset’
Alien snails
Posted in ecology, shells, snails, tagged ecology, snails, Somerset, yeovil on February 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
More Snails from Henlade
Posted in snails, tagged Somerset on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this post, I discussed some snail shells I had recovered from a site I was excavating at Henlade in Somerset. The shells aren’t part of the excavation archive, as they don’t come from known archaeological contexts, rather they are more modern, and collected purely for my curiosity.
This time I concentrated on some very patchy [...]
Snails from Henlade, Somerset, UK
Posted in ecology, sites, snails, tagged ecology, snails, Somerset, South West, tribute on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the past two weeks, I have been part of a team excavating a site near to Henlade in Somerset. While on the site, I decided to opportunistically collect a few (modern) empty snail shells, to see what has been living there. I’ve targeted two areas so far, a small shaded area at the [...]
