Charred grains (660): free-threshing wheat from Howgill Brook

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posted on 2022-06-29, 13:30 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Tina Roushannafas

dorsal view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Howgill Brook, England (2mm scalebar)

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

Howgill Brook

haystack grain photo ID

660

haystack sample ID

1884

haystack stable isotope ID

n/a

haystack stable isotope lab code

n/a

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Druce, D. (2018). 'Charred plant remains', in Bradley, J. and Howard-Davis, C. From Mesolithic Encampment to Medieval Estate: The Archaeology of the Bay Gateway (Lancaster: Oxford Archaeology North).

image function

morphometric

view

dorsal

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

E5 (1160-1220)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Howgill Brook morphometric dorsal view free-threshing wheat Phase E5 (1160-1220)Archaeology

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