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Table 1 6 : The Plant Remains 



Key: [ ] = mineralised remains; no brackets = charred; f = fragment; + = < 1 



Phases: Phase 1 = Middle Iron Age to Early Roman; Phase 2 = Later Romano-British; 



Feature types: L = linear feature; M = midden; O = oven; P = pit 



Habitat key: A = arable; C = cultivated; D = disturbed/waste; E = heath; G = grassland; H = hedgerow; M = marsh; P = ponds/ 



ditches; S = scrub; W = woods; a = acidic; c = calcareous; d = damp; n = nutrient-rich; o = open 



Phase and Feature type 

 Context 



Feature 



Sample no. 

 TAXA 



Cereals 



Triticum dicoccum/speha 

 (emmer/spelt grain) 

 Triticum cf. aestivocompactum 

 (bread-type wheat grain) 

 Triticum sp. 



(indeterminate wheat grain) 

 Hordeum \njlgare 

 (hulled barley grain) 



cf. Hordeum sp. (cf. barley grain) 2 



cf. Avena sp. (cf. oat grain) 

 Indeterminate grains 16 



Chaff 



Triticum dicoccum (emmer glume base) 

 T cf. dicoccum (cf. emmer glume bases) 2 



T spelta ( spelt glume base) 

 T dicoccum/spelta (emmer/spelt 

 glume bases) 



T. dicoccum/spelta (emmer/spelt 

 spikelet forks) 



T. dicoccum/spelta (emmer/spelt 

 rachis frag.) 



Hordeum sp. (barley rachis) 

 Cereal-type culm nodes 

 Cereal-type culm base 

 Weeds 



Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum 

 (onion couch) AG 

 Brassica/Sinapis sp. (mustard, 

 charlock etc.) CD 

 Bromus sect. Bromus (chess) CG 

 Chenopodium album L. (fat hen) CDn 

 Chenopodiaceae CD 

 Cirsium/Carduus sp. (thistle) DG 

 Corylus avellana (hazelnut shell 

 frag.) HSW 



Daucus carota L. (carrot) GDc 

 Eleocharis subg. Palustres (spike-rush) 

 PMd 



Fallopia convolvulus (L.)A.Love 

 (black bindweed) AD 

 Galeopsis tetrahit L. (common 

 hemp-nettle) ADd 

 Galium aparine L. (cleavers) DH 

 Galium cruciata (L.)Scop. (crosswort) 

 DGHc 

 Galium sp. (cleavers frag.) DH 



1 p 



1 L 



1 P 



1 P 



1 P 



1 P 



1 P 



20 



2 O 



2 M 2 P 



3039 



3068 



3021 



3018 



3023 



3005 



3007 



4247 



4221 



4016,4235 



4038, 



4066 



3037 



3083 



3020 



3016 



3022 



3004 



3006 



4214 



4007 



mid- 4234 

 den 



1 



2 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



8 



10 



1 1, 24 

 12,13 



2 



3 



6 



86 



12 



22 



27 







2 



1 



17 

 34 



23 



15 



19 



20 



31 



116 



13 



94 



52 





2 



5 







5 



33 



36 



21 



31 



14 



137 



146 



64 



49 



1 



2 



15 



12 



22 



1 





2 



1 



1 





1 



4 



1 



5 



2 



[8] 









[2] 



1 



4 



44 



14 



36 





3 



3 



3 



[1] 



2[lf] 



