Charred grains (6231): oats from West Fen Road, Ely (Ashwell site)

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posted on 2022-07-06, 20:29 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil, Elizabeth Stroud

ventral view of charred cereal grains (Avena) 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

6231

haystack sample ID

228

haystack stable isotope ID

641

haystack stable isotope lab code

WFR019

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)

Avena

cereal (English)

oats

FeedSax phase

E1-E4 (1030-1160)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains West Fen Road Ely (Ashwell site)reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view oats Phase E1-E4 (1030-1160)Archaeology

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