CARBONISED PLANT REMAINS FROM ROMAN CONTEXTS AT STEBBING GREEN, ESSEX.

Author(s): P Murphy

Samples from the bases of two ovens and from a drainage ditch produced cereal samples composed largely of spelt (Triticum spelta) chaff with some cereal grains and occasional weed seeds and culm fragments. Germinated grains and loose 'sprouts' were consistently present. The deposits are thought to represent the remains of oven fuel mixed with malted grains accidentally charred during parching (following the interpretation of material from Catsgore by Hillman [1982]). An interpretation of features at the site in terms of the malting process is offered.

Report Number:
112/1989
Series:
AML Reports (New Series)
Pages:
4
Keywords:
Plant Remains

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