MOVERONS FARM, BRIGHTLINGSEA, ESSEX: CARBONISED PLANTS REMAINS FROM A BRONZE AGE CREMATION CEMETERY

Author(s): P Murphy

Fifty-eight samples from cremations and fourteen from associated charcoal-rich fills were examined in detail and samples from other contexts assessed. The cremations produced sparse remains of cereals, fruits, seeds and tubers from grassland plants and arable weeds, with some fruitstones and nutshells. The material seems to represent uprooted plants from Arrhenatheretum grassland and possibly some crop processing waste used as kindling. In one sample cereals were fairly common and may represent intentional deposition. The pit fills produced mainly oak charcoal with few other macrofossils.

Report Number:
122/1990
Series:
AML Reports (New Series)
Pages:
19
Keywords:
Plant Remains

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