Charred grains (843): free-threshing wheat from Stratton, Biggleswade

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posted on 2022-07-05, 21:03 authored by Helena HamerowHelena Hamerow, Samantha Neil

dorsal view of charred cereal grains (Triticum free-threshing) from archaeological excavations at Stratton, Biggleswade, 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

Stratton, Biggleswade

haystack grain photo ID

843

haystack sample ID

1799

haystack stable isotope ID

n/a

haystack stable isotope lab code

BIG009B

haystack radiocarbon ID

n/a

assemblage reference

Moffett, L. and Smith, W. (2022). 'Charred and waterlogged plants', in Shotliff, D. and Ingham, D., Stratton, Biggleswade: 1300 years of village life in eastern Bedfordshire from the 5th century AD (Oxford: Archaeopress), Appendix A8.

image function

morphometric

view

dorsal

cereal (Latin)

Triticum free-threshing

cereal (English)

free-threshing wheat

FeedSax phase

C4-D3 (820-980)

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Keywords

charred cereal grains Stratton Biggleswade morphometric dorsal view free-threshing wheat Phase C4-D3 (820-980)Archaeology

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