Charred grains (5101): free-threshing wheat from Wellington Quarry

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posted on 2022-07-06, 17:39 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil

dorsal view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Wellington Quarry, 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

Wellington Quarry

haystack grain photo ID

5101

haystack sample ID

1897

haystack stable isotope ID

303

haystack stable isotope lab code

WEQ002A

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Pearson, E. (2020). 'Medieval environmental remains', in Jackson, R. and Miller, D., Wellington Quarry, Herefordshire (1986-96). Investigations of a landscape in the Lower Lugg Valley (Oxford: Oxbow Books), pp.149-151.

image function

morphometric

view

dorsal

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

E1-E4 (1030-1160)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Wellington Quarry morphometric dorsal view free-threshing wheat Phase E1-E4 (1030-1160)Archaeology

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