PLANT REMAINS FROM FURNESS ABBEY, CUMBRIA: AN INITIAL SAMPLE.
Author(s): J P Huntley
One sample, collected during the watching brief of a sewer trench at Furness Abbey, Cumbria, yielded well-preserved waterlogged material. The botanical assemblage was dominated by alder (Alnus glutinosa) bracts and female cone fragments. Other taxa indicated a wet carr woodland habitat. A few periderms of cereal were found indicating that there was some local cereal cultivation. With more samples and their associated archaeological information it should be possible to examine the development of the landscape by the local monastic community, communities for which we have little environmental information.
- Report Number:
- 66/1989
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 3
- Keywords:
- Plant Remains
