SEWERBY COTTAGE FARM, MARTONGATE, BRIDLINGTON, EAST YORKSHIRE (SCF): ASSESSMENT OF CHARRED PLANT REMAINS FROM NEOLITHIC DEPOSITS
Author(s): J P Huntley
171 samples from, mostly, pit and post hole fills, were collected from a Neolithic site dominated by flint and flint working debitage in East Yorkshire. 50 samples contained identifiable charred plant remains although charcoal was present in all samples. The seed assemblage contained grains of hulled barley, and probably both emmer and bread wheats. Chaff was absent and weed seeds very rare. Of especial interest are some numbers of large legumes, probably Pisum sativum. Unusually, for a Neolithic site, very few natural resources were present. Small amounts only of hazelnut shell and the occasional apple pip plus a few fragments of tuber were present. The latter possibly included Ranunculus ficaria. No further work is recommended for the seeds - the data presented are the archive - but some identification of charcoal from one context would provide information about local woodland utilisation.
- Report Number:
- 95/2001
- Series:
- CfA Reports
- Pages:
- 25
- Keywords:
- Charcoal Grain, Carbonised Plant Remains
