SPRINGFIELD LYONS, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX: CARBONISED PLANT REMAINS FROM NEOLITHIC, LATE BRONZE AGE, IRON AGE, ROMAN, EARLY- AND LATE- SAXON CONTEXTS.
Author(s): P Murphy
Extensive sampling at this site has produced assemblages of crop plant remains and weed seeds spanning a period of more than 4,000 years. The most informative and largest collections of material come from Late Bronze Age and Late Saxon contexts. The former produced remains of spelt, emmer, bread/club wheat, six-row hulled barley and horse beans with an associated weed flora. Late Saxon contexts produced mainly oats, barley, bread/club wheat, spelt, emmer, rye, flax and pulses again with a weed flora. Evidence for crop processing, storage and utilisation is discussed. The changing locations of the arable areas are considered, and the results from the carbonised plant remains are discussed in relation to the known pattern of alluviation in the adjacent Chelmer valley.
- Report Number:
- 11/1990
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 57
- Keywords:
- Plant Remains
