BOXFIELD FARM, STEVENAGE, HERTFORDSHIRE: CARBONISED PLANT REMAINS AND OTHER MACROFOSSILS.

Author(s): P Murphy

Limited sampling at this Roman farm close to the edge of the Hertfordshire Boulder Clay plateau produced remains of Triticum spelta with traces of barley (Hordeum sp.), bread-type wheat (T.aestivum s.l.) and an associated weed flora. A 'corn-dryer', fuelled with wood and spelt chaff, is thought to have been used for drying prime grain prior to storage or milling and perhaps also for parching spelt malt. Samples from the aerated fills of a well produced carbonised cereals, arable weeds and a grassland flora, but the feature was too deep (14.5m +) for its presumed basal organic fills to be excavated. Plant remains from other contexts were assessed, but not studied in detail, being apparently typical of Roman rural assemblages.

Report Number:
76/1990
Series:
AML Reports (New Series)
Pages:
12
Keywords:
Plant Remains

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