THE CARBONISED PLANT REMAINS FROM HALLSHILL, NORTHUM. (NY 906886).
Author(s): M Van der Veen
Carbonised plant remains from 20 samples were analysed from this late Bronze Age hut-circle. The samples came from pits, post-holes and one hearth. Triticum dicoccum (emmer wheat) was the dominant crop plant in the samples, but small quantities of Triticum spelta (spelt wheat), Hordeum vulgare (six-row barley) and Linum ussitatissimum (flax) were also found. The assemblage consisted largely of cereal chaff fragments, with only small quantities of cereal grain and arable weed seeds present. The grains of spelt and seeds of flax form the earliest records for these species in northern England recovered so far.
- Report Number:
- 48/1987
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Grain, Carbonised Plant Remains
