Mat - Specimen details

Mat - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 31696

Plant Name 200.00 POACEAE Ammophila arenaria Entry Book Number 48.1856
Artefact Name Mat Vernacular Name
Iso Country United Kingdom TDWG Region United Kingdom
Parts Held Mat Geography Description Great Britain, Europe, Northern Europe, Wales
Uses MatUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man TDWG use MATERIALS - Fibres
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Berkeley Rev MJ Donor No
Donor Date 00/04/1856 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: These mats, which are used in churches and houses, are made by the Welsh peasants. Johnson relates in his Mercurius Botanicus (1641) that in his time the inhabitants of Newborough had no other handicraft than the manufacture of ropes, mats,, etc, from this grass.
Determinations:200.00 POACEAE Ammophila arenaria (Host.) Husn.
    200.00 POACEAE Ammophila arundinacea Host.

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