C.P. Gallienne* **, D.V.P. Conway, J. Robinson, N. Naya, J.S. William, T. Lynch and S. Meunier *Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH. Marine Biological Association,The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL12PB. Seychelles Fishing Authority, PO Box 449, Fishing Port,Victoria, Mahe¤ , Seychelles. Public Utilities Corporation, Water and Sewage Division, Laboratory Section...

University of California – Los Angeles School of Public Health, P.O. Box 951772, Los Angeles, CA 90052, USA b Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7624, USA d Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laborat...

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, 5 Plymouth PL1 2PB, U.K. 6 Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, 7 University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QG, U.K. 8 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of 9 Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, U.K...

J. N. Griffin ([email protected]), V. Méndez, A. F. Johnson and S. R. Jenkins, Marine Biological Ass. of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK. JNG and A. Foggo, Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK. AFJ and SRJ also at: School of Ocean Sciences, Univ. of Wales Bangor, Menai Bridge, An...

A micro-Raman spectroscopy study of a multi-coloured (yellow, blue, white, redish-brown and brown-black) tile shard from the Citadel of Algiers was undertaken. XRD and EDX were used as complementary techniques. The study shows that the heterogeneous three-shade yellow pigment on the tile is composed largely of the ancient ternary (Pb-Sn-Sb) pyrochlore oxide with a dominant Pb-O vibration at 127...