Cite this as: McKerracher, M. et al. 2023 Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper), Internet Archaeology 61. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.61.5
The FeedSax project combined bioarchaeological data with evidence from settlement archaeology to investigate how, when and why the expansion of arable farming occurred between the 8th-13th centuries in England. It has generated and released a vast, multi-faceted archaeological dataset both to underpin its own published findings and to support further research.
Corresponding author: Helena Hamerow
helena.hamerow@arch.ox.ac.uk
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Mark McKerracher
Sustainable Digital Scholarship service, University of Oxford
Amy Bogaard
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Michael Charles
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Emily Forster
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield
John Hodgson
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Matilda Holmes
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
Samantha Neil
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Tina Roushannafas
Oxford Archaeology
Elizabeth Stroud
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford
Richard Thomas
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
Figure 1: Charred cereal grains (Hordeum L.), in ventral view, from archaeological excavations at Lyminge, Kent (Image credit: Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project)
Figure 2: Botanical survey in the open fields at Laxton, Nottinghamshire (Image credit: Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project)
Figure 3: Taking peat/sediment samples using a Russian corer at Daisy Banks Fen, Oxfordshire (Image credit: Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project)
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McKerracher, M., Bogaard, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Charles, M., Forster, E., Hamerow, H., Hodgson, J., Holmes, M., Neil, S., Roushannafas, T., Stroud, E., Thomas, R. 2023 Digital Archive for Feeding Anglo-Saxon England (FeedSax): The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution, 2017-2022 [data-set], York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1057492
McKerracher, M., Hamerow, H. and Bronk Ramsey, C. in prep 'Medieval English Chronologies: implications of a major radiocarbon dating programme'.
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Stroud, E. 2022 'Understanding Early Medieval Crop and Animal Husbandry through Isotopic Analysis' in M. McKerracher and H. Hamerow (eds) New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution': Crop, Stock and Furrow, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 41-60. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv333ktnp.10
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