Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove, Glasgow
Eleven fossil lycopsid tree stumps preserved in place in a Carboniferous forest floor.
325 to 320 MaFossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland
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Carboniferous forest soundscape, speculative
A composed soundscape imagining the Fossil Grove forest: wind in giant club-mosses, insects, water. Clearly speculative.
325 to 320 MaFossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland
Ichthyosaurus communis, Lyme Regis
A Lower Jurassic marine reptile skeleton from the Blue Lias of the Dorset coast.
199 to 190 MaJurassic Coast near Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Dinosaur trackway, Trotternish, Skye
A Middle Jurassic trackway of sauropod and theropod footprints on a tidal platform.
170 to 165 MaTrotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Parasaurolophus walkeri holotype, ROM 768
The type specimen of the crested hadrosaur, a near-complete skeleton from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.
76.5 to 74 MaDinosaur Park Formation, southern Alberta, Canada
Parasaurolophus crest resonance, reconstructed call
A modelled low-frequency call derived from the crest's internal airways. A reconstruction, not a recording.
76.5 to 74 MaDinosaur Park Formation, southern Alberta, Canada
Basal glacial till, below 110 cm, inferred age
The till beneath the profile, inferred to date from the last ice retreat.
15 to 12 kaAbernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland
Engraved bird, Church Hole, Creswell Crags
A Late Upper Palaeolithic engraving of a bird on a cave wall, one of the oldest images in Britain.
13 to 12 kaCreswell Crags, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, England
Charcoal band, 40 to 50 cm, radiocarbon dated
A charcoal-rich band at the base of the bleached horizon, dated to the fourth millennium BCE.
3600 to 3300 BCEAbernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland
Proto-Celtic word for tree, reconstructed
A reconstructed Proto-Celtic form for tree, built by the comparative method from Gaelic, Welsh and Breton.
1000 to 500 BCEAtlantic Europe
Aberlemno serpent stone
A Pictish symbol stone carved with a serpent, double disc and mirror, standing by the roadside.
600 to 800 CEAberlemno, Angus, Scotland
Capercaillie extinct in Scotland, 1785
The last documented native capercaillie in Scotland, before reintroduction in the 1830s.
1770 to 1785Scottish Highlands
Capercaillie in a Victorian sporting engraving
A nineteenth-century engraving of a displaying capercaillie, made soon after the bird's reintroduction.
1860 to 1880Scottish Highlands
Abernethy: Obar Neithich
The Gaelic name of the pinewood, meaning the mouth of the river Nethy.
1900 to 2020Nethy Bridge, Strathspey, Scotland
Waulking song, Isle of Lewis, 1955
An archival recording of women singing while fulling cloth, held by a national sound archive.
1955Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Cornish song, revived tradition
A Cornish-language song performed by a revival singer, embedded from the holding archive.
2015Cornwall, England
Gaelic pinewood words, Badenoch speaker
A native speaker names the trees, birds and soils of the pinewood in Gaelic. Recorded with consent.
2018Badenoch, Scottish Highlands
Capercaillie display call, Cairngorms
Male display call recorded at a spring lek in a Scottish pinewood. Location generalised to protect the lek.
2019Cairngorms region, Scotland
Pine tar burning, traditional method
A documented demonstration of making tar from Scots pine roots in an earth kiln.
2019Scottish Highlands
Pinewood podzol profile, Abernethy
An illustrative soil profile beneath native Scots pine: litter, bleached eluvial layer, iron pan and till.
2021Abernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland
Ectomycorrhizal root tips, 5 to 20 cm
Pine root tips sheathed by chanterelle mycelium sampled from the humic layer.
2021Abernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland
Iron pan, 60 to 70 cm
A thin cemented iron pan that perches water and roots above it.
2021Abernethy Forest, Strathspey, Scotland
Scottish wildcat call, Badenoch
A documented recording of a wildcat call from a conservation project. Region only.
2021Badenoch, Scottish Highlands
Kākāpō boom, Fiordland
The low booming call of a male kākāpō, embedded from the holding archive.
2022Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand