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Charred grains (6186): barley from West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site)

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posted on 2022-07-06, 20:31 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil, Elizabeth Stroud

ventral view of charred cereal grains (Hordeum) 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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History

link to FeedSax data archive

https://doi.org/10.5284/1057492

site

West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site)

haystack grain photo ID

6186

haystack sample ID

haystack stable isotope ID

623

haystack stable isotope lab code

WFR001

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.

image function

reference (stable isotope analysis)

view

ventral

cereal (Latin)

Hordeum

cereal (English)

barley

FeedSax phase

C3-C4 (770-880)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains West Fen Road Ely (Ashwell site)reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view barley Phase C3-C4 (770-880)Archaeology

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CC BY-NC 4.0