ABCD: 1363

Tudor Merchant's House Quay St, Tenby

Site code:

1363

Site details:

Location: Tudor Merchant's House, Quay St, Tenby, 1990, Dyfed, Wales SN130005
Period: post medieval
Category: urban merchant's house
Notes: rock cut cesspit at base of latrine tower on sand
Topography: -
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Nye S. 1990. Botanical remains. 249-52. In: Murphy K. 1990. Analysis of a cesspit fill from the Tudor Merchant's House, Tenby, Dyfed. Bull. Board of Celtic Stud. 36 (for 1989). 246-62. Wales, Dyfed

Processed by

ARH - Hall, Dr Allan: EAU, York Univ

JRG - Greig, James R: Birmingham Univ, Dept Plant Sciences

MR - Robinson, Mark: Oxford Univ

PRT - Tomlinson, Philippa: EAU, York Univ/Centre for Manx Studies, IOM

SN - Nye, Sandra: freelance contract worker

Sample: 1363a

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
PR.PM.16	1	pit fill	mineralised organic	post medieval	1500	1600
Context integrity: 3 Context preservation: mn Dating method: pot Dating validity: 2 Environmental interpretion: faeces & ash material Archaeological interpretion: rubbish thrown onto cess to reduce odour!
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Atriplex sp. pro m 2 1 Avena sp. pro c 14 2 Brassica sp. pro m 4 1 Cerealia brn m + 1 Cerealia clm c + 1 Cerealia clm m + 1 Cerealia pro c 12 2 cf. Lepidium latifolium pro m 1 1 cf. Rubus idaeus pro m 7 1 Chelidonium majus pro m 3 1 Chenopodium album pro m 4 1 Coriandrum sativum pro m 3 1 Crataegus monogyna pro m 1 1 Ficus carica pro m 180 4 Foeniculum vulgare pro m 2 1 Fragaria vesca pro m 100 4 Gramineae pro c 1 1 Hordeum vulgare pro c 2 1 Humulus lupulus bra m !2 + 1 Hypnum cupressiforme pro c + 1 indet. cwd c + 1 indet. mos c + 1 indet. twi c + 1 Lapsana communis pro m 1 1 Linum usitatissimum pro m 2 1 Linum usitatissimum/Cannabis sativa bas m ! + 1 Malus sp. pro m L 9 1 Polygonum lapathifolium pro m 1 1 Prunus domestica ssp. insititia pro m 28 3 Prunus sp. pro m !1 + 1 Prunus spinosa pro m 100 4 Pteridium aquilinum pin c Q + 1 Rosa cf. canina pro m 1 1 Rubus fruticosus agg. pro m 440 4 Rumex acetosella agg. pro m 1 1 Rumex sp. pro m 1 1 Sambucus nigra pro m 10 2 Triticum sp. pro c 2 1 Ulex sp. spi c + 1 Vitis vinifera pro m 205 4

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