Site formation processes of underfloor material preservation at Fremantle Prison, Western Australia

Figures & data

Figure 1. Location of Fremantle Prison in Fremantle, Western Australia (Drawing: Paige Taylor).

Figure 2. Fremantle Prison main cellblock showing the location of cell D40 on the north east side of the first floor (Drawing: Paige Taylor).

Figure 3. Leather shoe soles excavated from cell D40 (Photograph: Paige Taylor).

Figure 4. The Gospel According to St John book excavated from cell D40 c.1936–1952 (Photograph: Fremantle Prison).

Table 1. Weights of organic artefacts from cell D40 deposit.

Weight (g)	Object Type
306.85	Textiles
261.62	Newspapers
248.2	Scrubbing brush
139.92	Shoe soles
119.95	Furniture
52.65	Paper
47.98	Bones
38.2	Military pamphlets – To Men on Service
24.07	Matchsticks
20.59	The Gospel According to Saint John book
16.31	Matchboxes
11.36	Blue and white shirt fragment
9.84	Leather
6.65	Perga hygiene packets
6.07	Medical gauze
4.82	Envelope
4.16	Bone buttons
3.57	Shoe lace
3.54	Wood artefacts
3.38	Magazines
3.23	Cardboard cigarette packets
2.54	Eggshell
2.32	Cigarette papers
1.7	Western Australian football league fixture flyer
1.64	Clothing peg
1.53	Playing card
0.92	Sandpaper
0.81	Apple stems
0.69	Pencil shavings
0.45	Cigarette filters
0.43	Human nails
0.43	Organic bottle stopper
0.29	Cardboard token
0.22	Brush bristles
0.22	Human hairs
0.2	Cork
0.15	Onion skin
0.11	Apple seeds
0.01	Sticker

Table 2. Insect species identified in deposit from cell D40.

Scientific Name	Common Name
Blattodea	Cockroach
Carabidae promecoderus	Ground beetle
Cimicidae cimex	Bed bug
Dermestidae anthrenus	Museum beetle
Dermestidae attagenus	Carpet beetle
Diptera	Fly pupae casing
Elateridae	Click beetle
Isopoda	Slater
Ptinidae mezium	Spider beetle
Tenebrionidae gonocephalum	Darkling beetle
Tinea bisselliella	Clothes moth