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Aberthaw: Plant/tree & Geology

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Title Aberthaw: Plant/tree & Geology
Description Picture: 1
Rhoose Quarry

Innermost fossil beach. Saltmarsh drift, fossil cliff, East Aberthaw. March 1978

Date: March 1978

Picture: 2
Old Raised Beach

Brassica nigra bottom of Aberthaw cliff by pebbles 1971

Date: 1971

Picture: 3
Aberthaw cement works, Orchid, Arum, Tamus

Maidenhair fern on wet tufa, Watch House Point, July 1978
Marys species name: Maidenhair fern
Scientific name: Adiantum capillus-veneris
Common name: Maidenhair fern

Date: July 1978

Picture: 4
Aberthaw bee orchids

Blackthorn at base of fossil cliff. East Aberthaw, March 1978
Marys species name: Blackthorn
Scientific name: Prunus spinosa
Common name: Blackthorn

Date: March 1978
Item URL https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/648801
Community archive People's Collection Wales
Subject

Aberthaw

Plant tree

Geology

Blackthorn

Prunus spinosa

Level Item
Author 'A Dedicated Naturalist', the Mary Gillham Archive Project

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