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Charred grains (6189): rye 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 (Secale cereale) 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

6189

haystack sample ID

haystack stable isotope ID

626

haystack stable isotope lab code

WFR004

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)

Secale cereale

cereal (English)

rye

FeedSax phase

D1-D3 (880-980)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains West Fen Road Ely (Ashwell site)reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view rye Phase D1-D3 (880-980)Archaeology

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