Stanway, Essex: Plant Remains from Late Neolithic, Early Bronze and Middle Iron Age Pits and Late Iron Age Burials
Author(s): P Murphy
Early prehistoric pits produced only charcoal though one pit tentatively dated to the MIA included charred hazel nutshell, sloe and hawthorn fruitstones, an assemblage more characteristic in this area of the Neolithic, suggesting dating should be reconsidered. MIA pits included charred remains of emmer, spelt and barley with weed seeds, apparently domestic assemblages. Planking at the base of a LIA burial pit was preserved mainly by ferrimanganiferous replacement. A 'pyre' deposit of LIA date included cremated bone, charcoal, tubers , rhizomatous material, moss stem, and fruits/seeds of Sieglingia and Montia. This resembles assemblages widely reported from Bronze Age cremations and represents grassland vegetation either uprooted or kindling or charred in situ.
- Report Number:
- 29/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 5
- Keywords:
- Plant Remains
