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Class: Cephalopoda. This box contains some remains of both Todarodes sagittatus and Loligo forbesii. It contains a beak, a dried specimen of suckers and skin as well as a long bone like item.

Class: Cephalopoda. This box contains some remains of both Todarodes sagittatus and Loligo forbesii. It contains a beak, a dried specimen of suckers and skin as well as a long bone like item.

Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. All specimens have both valves still attached.

Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. Adults with the recognisable blue colouring. All specimens still have both valves joined. 2 have heavy barnacle epibionts of the species Chthamalus montagui.

Class: Bivalvia. 3 specimens. All have both valves still connected. Large, subcircular and thick with well defined radiating growth lines. They vary in colour from whites to light purples and reds.

Class: Bivalvia. 5 specimens. All have both valves still connected. Large, oval shaped and thick, these shells have clear concentric ridges and visible growth lines.

Class: Bivalvia. 2 specimens, both with both valves still attached at the hinge. These specimens are very large, oval and thick. The periostracum is very dark brown.

Class: Bivalvia. 10 specimens. 2 have both valves still attached and closed. 6 left valves and 2 right valves. Small, white, fan shaped with well defined ridges.

Class: Bivalvia. 12 specimens. 4 still have both valves attached, 4 right and 4 left valves, that were likely all connected to one another forming another 4 separate animals.

Class: Bivalvia. 1 specimen. Very large and triangular with both valves present. The shell is very thin and fragile. Fan mussels are one of Britain's largest and rarest mussels.