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Table 4: Plant preservation recording sheet

Key to entries
Excellent: specimens firm, uneroded, retaining delicate tissues
Good
Moderate
Poor
Very poor: specimens soft and/or strongly eroded and/or lacking delicate tissues; only the more robust kinds of remains present

(categories 'good' and 'poor' are interpolated during recording on the gridlines between excellent and moderate, and moderate and very poor, respectively.)
Percentage by volume 'light fraction'
%, of which
% charcoal

Waterlogged Charred Mineralised
E M V E M V E M V
leather . . . . . . . . .
eggshell mem. . . . . . . . . .
roundwood . . . . . . . . .
twigs . . . . . . . . .
wood chips . . . . . . . . .
other wood . . . . . . . . .
charcoal XXXX XXXX XXXX . . . XXXX XXXX XXXX
concretions XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX . . .
free 'bran' . . . . . . . . .
'grassy'/'strawy' detritus . . . . . . . . .
nutshell . . . . . . . . .
moss . . . . . . . . .
fruitstones . . . . . . . . .
other fruits and seeds . . . . . . . . .
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