Charred grains (1570): free-threshing wheat from Walsingham Way, Ely

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posted on 2022-07-05, 21:34 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher

ventral view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Walsingham Way, Ely, England

Funding

Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution

European Research Council

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History

link to FeedSax data archive

https://doi.org/10.5284/1057492

site

Walsingham Way, Ely

haystack grain photo ID

1570

haystack sample ID

1119

haystack stable isotope ID

n/a

haystack stable isotope lab code

n/a

haystack radiocarbon ID

assemblage reference

De Vareilles, A. (2011). 'Analyses of Bulk Environmental Samples', in Slater, A., Walsingham Way, Ely, Cambridgeshire. An Archaeological Excavation. Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit. (York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor]), pp.46-52.

image function

reference (radiocarbon dating)

view

ventral

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

D4 (980-1030)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Walsingham Way Ely reference (radiocarbon dating)ventral view free-threshing wheat Phase D4 (980-1030)Archaeology

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