ABCD: 1599

Rollright Stones 82-6 nr Chipping Norton

Site code:

1599

Site details:

Location: Rollright Stones 82-6, nr Chipping Norton, 1988, Oxfordshire, England SP305305
Period: Neolithic - Bronze Age - Iron Age
Category: three megalithic monuments
Notes: flotation on all pre-Iron Age deposits containing charred rems.
Topography: limestone scarp
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Moffett L. 1988. Charred seeds and crop remains from the Iron Age enclosure. 103-5. In: Lambrick G (et al.). The Rollright Stones, megaliths, monuments and settlements in the prehistoric landscape. English Heritage Archaeological Report 6. London: HBMC(E). England, Oxfordshire

Processed by

LM - Moffett, Lisa: Birmingham Univ

Sample: 1599a

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
PH.?	(7)	pit & ditch fills	nr	Iron Age	?	?
Context integrity: 1 Context preservation: bu Dating method: ? Dating validity: ? Environmental interpretion: none of the charred material seems to have been burnt in sit Archaeological interpretion: enclosure ditch
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Atriplex sp. pro c 2 1 Avena sp. awn c 7 1 Avena sp. pro c 5 1 Bilderdykia convolvulus pro c 5 1 Bromus hordeaceus/secalinus pro c T 59 3 Caryophyllaceae pro c 6 1 Cerealia pro c 205 4 cf. Euphrasia/Odontites sp. pro c 2 1 cf. Plantago sp. pro c 1 1 cf. Triticum dicoccon glb c 1 1 cf. Triticum spelta pro c 1 1 Chenopodium sp. pro c 5 1 Compositae pro c 1 1 Corylus avellana nts c 1 1 Eleocharis palustris/uniglumis pro c 2 1 Euphrasia/Odontites sp. pro c 3 1 Galium aparine pro c 4 1 Galium sp. pro c 11 2 Gramineae clm c 2 1 Gramineae pro c 82 3 Hordeum vulgare pro c !1 258 4 Hordeum vulgare rch c ! 6 1 Lathyrus/Vicia sp. pro c 34 3 Leguminosae pro c 5 1 Matricaria perforata pro c 1 1 Medicago/Melilotus/Trifolium sp. pro c 3 1 Phleum cf. pratense pro c 4 1 Polygonum aviculare agg. pro c 1 1 Rosaceae tho c 1 1 Rumex sp. pro c 31 3 Sambucus nigra pro c 1 1 Silene dioica pro c 1 1 Stellaria media type pro c 5 1 Stellaria sp. pro c 9 1 Trifolium sp. pro c 4 1 Triticum aestivo-compactum/spelta pro c 1 1 Triticum dicoccon spf c 1 1 Triticum dicoccon/spelta glb c 469 4 Triticum dicoccon/spelta pro c 1 1 Triticum dicoccon/spelta spf c 13 2 Triticum sp. pro c 164 4 Triticum sp. rch c 5 1 Triticum spelta glb c 95 3 Triticum spelta rch c 4 1 Triticum spelta spf c 1 1 Veronica hederifolia pro c 2 1

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