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Charred grains (5312): free-threshing wheat from West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site)

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posted on 2022-07-06, 20:30 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil

lateral view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site), England

Funding

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

European Research Council

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link to FeedSax data archive

https://doi.org/10.5284/1057492

site

West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site)

haystack grain photo ID

5312

haystack sample ID

188

haystack stable isotope ID

n/a

haystack stable isotope lab code

WFR008B

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Ballantyne, R. (2005). 'Plants and seeds', in Mortimer, R., Regan, R. and Lucy, S., The Saxon and Medieval Settlement at West Fen Road, Ely: The Ashwell Site. East Anglian Archaeology report no. 110 (Cambridge: Cambridge Archaeological Unit), pp.100-112.

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morphometric

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lateral

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

D4 (980-1030)

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charred cereal grains West Fen Road Ely (Ashwell site)morphometric lateral view free-threshing wheat Phase D4 (980-1030)Archaeology

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