Charred grains (3552): free-threshing wheat from Mildenhall

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posted on 2022-06-30, 08:49 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Elizabeth Stroud

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

Mildenhall

haystack grain photo ID

3552

haystack sample ID

3975

haystack stable isotope ID

692

haystack stable isotope lab code

MID027

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Cobain, S. (2019). 'Plant macrofossils and charcoal', in Havard, T., Alexander, M. and Holt, R., Iron Age Fortification Beside the River Lark: Excavations at Mildenhall, Suffolk. East Anglian Archaeology Report No.169 (Cirencester: Cotswold Archaeology), pp.130-140.

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 Mildenhall reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view free-threshing wheat Phase C3-C4 (770-880)Archaeology

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