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Charred grains (1843): free-threshing wheat from Stratton, Biggleswade

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posted on 2022-07-05, 21:04 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil, Elizabeth Stroud

ventral view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Stratton, Biggleswade, 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

Stratton, Biggleswade

haystack grain photo ID

1843

haystack sample ID

1792

haystack stable isotope ID

n/a

haystack stable isotope lab code

BIG003

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Moffett, L. and Smith, W. (2022). 'Charred and waterlogged plants', in Shotliff, D. and Ingham, D., Stratton, Biggleswade: 1300 years of village life in eastern Bedfordshire from the 5th century AD (Oxford: Archaeopress), Appendix A8.

image function

reference (stable isotope analysis)

view

ventral

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

C3-C4 (770-880)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Stratton Biggleswade reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view free-threshing wheat Phase C3-C4 (770-880)Archaeology

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