The Evidence for Crop Processing Products from the Iron Age and Romano-British Periods at Gravelly Guy and Some Earlier Prehistoric Plant Remains

Author(s): L C Moffett

The excavations at Gravelly Guy, located on the second terrace of the upper Thames in Oxfordshire, provided an opportunity to sample for charred plant remains across a whole Iron Age settlement which was occupied from the early Iron Age to the early Romano-British period. Considerable emphasis was placed on the identification of crop processing products in order to be able to compare like products with like in making deductions about economic activities and possible changes in arable management. Some of the samples were primarily composed of chaff and weeds from crop cleaning activities, a few samples were nearly pure grain and others were a mix of these elements. Spelt, emmer and barley were the main crops found, and there were arable weeds, some plants of wet ground and a few species of woodland or hedgerows. Some early prehistoric pits on the site produced hazel nuts and a very few cereal remains.

Report Number:
46/1989
Series:
AML Reports (New Series)
Pages:
37
Keywords:
Plant Remains

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