FENLAND MANAGEMENT PROJECT. PLANT MACROFOSSILS (WOOD, FRUITS AND SEEDS) FROM AN EARLY IRON AGE SITE AT LINGWOOD FARM, COTTENHAM, CAMBRIDGESHIRE (LWF 92/3: TL 452 712)
Author(s): P Murphy
An assemblage of wood from a group of Early Iron Age wells consisted largely of small roundwood, with some stakes. The wood was mainly of hazel, sloe and ash, with some field maple, alder, Pomoideae, oak, willow/poplar and Viburnum. It is thought to consist principally of material derived from a perimeter hedge around the wells, probably intended to exclude stock. Fruits and seeds from the lower well fills pointed to vegetation of damp weedy grassland in the vicinity, with standing water subject to intermittent desiccation. Very low densities of charred cereals (emmer, barley) were present, but there is no reason to suppose that there was any large-scale cereal processing on site.
- Report Number:
- 49/1998
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 22
- Keywords:
- Plant Remains Seed Wood
