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Charred grains (6415): free-threshing wheat from Wolverton Mill

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posted on 2022-07-06, 22:42 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil, Elizabeth Stroud

ventral view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Wolverton Mill, 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

Wolverton Mill

haystack grain photo ID

6415

haystack sample ID

haystack stable isotope ID

515

haystack stable isotope lab code

WVM018

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Carruthers, W. (2011). 'The charred and mineralised plant remains', in Thompson, A., Chapman, P. and Chapman, A., Anglo-Saxon and medieval settlement at the former Post Office Training Establishment, Wolverton Mill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Excavations 2004, Northamptonshire Archaeology Report 11/50, pp.37-45

image function

reference (stable isotope analysis)

view

ventral

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

E2-E5 (1060-1220)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Wolverton Mill reference (stable isotope analysis)ventral view free-threshing wheat Phase E2-E5 (1060-1220)Archaeology

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