Environmental Evidence from the Dominican Friary, Beverley, Humberside
Author(s): E P Allison, A R Hall, H Kenward, C Nicholson, W J B McKenna, T P O'Connor
A large number of samples from excavations of the Dominican Friary, Beverley, (11th-16th/17th century) has been processed by bulk-sieving. A proportion of the residues (and where appropriate, the washovers) from these has been sorted for animal and plant remains and artefacts. From some of the same contexts, and from another series of deposits not processed by bulk-sieving, subsamples have been treated as 'general biological analysis' samples, using 300 um sieves. A seperate series of small subsamples has been analysed for parasite ova. Many of the samples were effectively barren of waterlogged plant and invertebrate remains, though most produced at least a little charred material in the form of charcoal and charred cereal remains. From a series of deposits formed at an early date from the western precinct boundary of the Friary it was clear that there had been an accumulation of richly organic material with evidence for textile processing.. Floors from the phase of construction and use of the 'Little Cloister' gave modest assemblages of snails. These were mostly taxa regularly recorded from urban archaeological sites, but in some cases there was a component that is likely to have originated in cut vegetation of the kind that would have been used for floor coverings or fuel.
- Report Number:
- 21/1990
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 152
- Keywords:
- Environmental Studies
