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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘zooarchaeology’
A resident alien snail from Sawston, Cambridgeshire
Posted in ecology, shells, snails, tagged Cambridgeshire, introductions, Roman, snails, zooarchaeology on July 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
