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ABCD: 1174

Bu Orkney


Site code:
1174


Site details:
Location: Bu, Orkney, 1987, Orkney, Scotland HY2690093
Period: Iron Age
Category: broch
Notes: salvage excavation
Topography: 13m boulder clay lowland coastal island
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography
Dickson C. 1987. Appendix 1:9 The macrofossil plant remains. 137-42. In: Hedges J W (et al.) 1987. Bu, Gurness and the Brochs of Orkney Part 1 Bu. BAR BS 163. Scotland, Orkney

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CAD - Dickson, Camilla: Glasgow Univ (nee Lambert)

Sample: 1174a
Period Context Type Sediment Period Earliest date Latest date
PH.IA 279-290 Ph floor layers/middens nr Iron Age -803 -456

Context integrity: 3
Context preservation: bu
Dating method: C14
Dating validity: 3
Environmental interpretion: -
Archaeological interpretion: occupation layers, floors & middens

Taxalist:
Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance
Alnus sp. cwd c + 1
Alopecurus cf. geniculatus pro c 4 2
Betula sp. pro c + 1
Brassica rapa cf. ssp. rapa pro c 45 4
Calluna vulgaris cwd c + 1
Calluna vulgaris lvs c 3 2
Calluna vulgaris pro c 11 3
Carex binervis pro c 3 2
Carex cf. hostiana pro c 7 3
Carex cf. nigra pro c 1 1
Carex cf. pilulifera pro c 2 1
Carex sp. pro c P 16 3
Cerealia pro c 3 2
cf. Brassica sp. pro c 5 3
cf. Bromus sp. pro c 1 1
cf. Luzula sp. pro c 1 1
cf. Poa annua pro c 29 4
Chara sp. pro c 1 1
Chenopodium album pro c 24 3
Eleocharis quinqueflora pro c 1 1
Empetrum nigrum pro c 6 3
Erica tetralix pro c 1 1
Galeopsis tetrahit agg. pro c 1 1
Hordeum vulgare pro c ! 106 4
indet. pro c 49 4
indet. rhi c 19 3
Juncus sp. pro c 1 1
Juncus squarrosus pro c 1 1
Montia fontana ssp. fontana pro c 3 2
Montia fontana ssp. variabilis pro c 8 3
Odontites verna pro c 1 1
Pedicularis sylvatica pro c 2 1
Picea sp. cwd c + 1
Plantago lanceolata pro c 3 2
Poa cf. trivialis pro c 1 1
Polygonum aviculare agg. pro c 58 4
Potentilla cf. erecta pro c 10 3
Potentilla palustris pro c 1 1
Ranunculus cf. repens pro c 1 1
Rosa sp. pro c 1 1
Rumex acetosella agg. pro c 15 3
Rumex sp. pro c P 51 4
Salix sp. cwd c P + 1
Sorbus aucuparia cwd c + 1
Spergula arvensis pro c 13 3
Stellaria cf. graminea pro c 1 1
Stellaria media pro c 118 4
Trifolium pratense/repens pro c 1 1


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