THE STANSTED AIRPORT PROJECT, ESSEX PART 1: COLCHESTER HALL PART 2: MOLEHILL GREEN
Author(s): P Murphy
Results from analyses of plant macrofossils, mollusca, and avian eggshell at these two rural medieval sites are presented and briefly discussed. The crop plant remains are mainly of compactoid free-threshing hexaploid wheat with one tetraploid-type rachis node, and other crops include barley and oat grains (some germinated- perhaps malting residues), flax and horse- beans. Plant macrofossils and mollusca indicate standing water in moats and ditches, and terrestrial mollusca provide evidence for an area of meadow at Molehill Green. Rare shells of marine molluscs and eggshell fragments from domestic fowl were also recovered.
- Report Number:
- 113/1988
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 16
- Keywords:
- Environmental Studies
