You may recall in this post I wrote about finding animal bones and an oyster shell in my parents’ garden when I was young. I still have the bones, but alas the oyster shell is lost. Well, visiting my parents’ garden this weekend, I noticed the shell pictured above in one of their flowerbeds.
The shell [...]
Posts Tagged ‘yeovil’
A gift from the garden
Posted in shells, tagged historical archaeology, oysters, yeovil on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alien snails
Posted in ecology, shells, snails, tagged ecology, snails, Somerset, yeovil on February 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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. [...]
Google Toys: Time Travel in Google Earth 5
Posted in maps, tagged clayton, Google, internet, maps, san francisco, yeovil on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the beta version of Google Earth 5 was launched, packed with exciting features like Google Mars and Google Oceans. One feature I was particularly interested in, however, was the historical imagery option, which not only allows you to check out each image update since the start of Keyhole Earth/ Google Earth, but in some [...]
The Bioarchaeologist as a Young Boy
Posted in bones, tagged bones, childhood, yeovil, zooarchaeology on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I remember the Burn’s Day Storm on January 25th and 16th 1990 very clearly, although I was only nine at the time. Several trees fell at my school during the day, and a neighbour’s tall pine tree fell into my parents’ garden in Yeovil, demolishing part of the dry stone wall dividing the properties. I [...]
