preserved plant remains

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Object Type
Museum number: Germ.515
Description: Moss. Sample of Hypnum aduncum hedwigia (var.Groenlandicum kneiffii) a native of arctic or high altitude environments
Cultures/periods
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks; Excavated by: Professor Oskar Friedrich von Fraas
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Schussenried (Open site two kilometres from Schussenried railway station at the source of the Schussen, in the area of the Upper Swabian end moraine on the northern edge of the younger moraine of the Rhine glacier.)
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 102 millimetres; Width: 56 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Schuler, A / Das Magdalenien de Schussenquelle. Die Steinartefakte der Grabung von Oskar Fraas (1866); Schmidt, R R / Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands (vol.1, p.55, fig.12)
Location: Not on display
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: Germ.515
Conservation

Free entry