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ABCD: 1300

Coulters Garage 78 Alcester


Site code:
1300


Site details:
Location: Coulters Garage 78, Alcester, 1989, Warwickshire, England SP05
Period: prehist/Iron age/Roman 2nd-4th cAD
Category: urban civil settlement
Notes: grain was mostly sprouted layer assoc with timber building [check Woodwards/Greig - o
Topography: gravel river terrace
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography
Woodwards L and Greig J R A. 1989. 2 Landscape changes over the last 2,000 years ... . 91-7. In: Booth P M. Roman store buildings in Alcester. Trans. Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeol. Soc. 94 (for 1985-6). 63-106. England, Warwickshire

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

Sample: 1300a
Period Context Type Sediment Period Earliest date Latest date
PH.? Hole 1 240 layer organic ?Iron Age ? ?

Context integrity: 3
Context preservation: wl
Dating method: C14
Dating validity: 1
Environmental interpretion: natural accumulations
Archaeological interpretion: poss assoc. with buried river channel

Taxalist:
Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance
Chenopodium cf. ficifolium pro w 1 1
Cirsium cf. palustre pro w 1 1
Eleocharis uniglumis/palustris pro w 1 1
Juncus sp. pro w 2 1
Lemna sp. pro w 25 3
Leontodon cf. autumnalis pro w 1 1
Montia fontana pro w 6 2
Polygonum aviculare agg. pro w 61 4
Potentilla cf. anglica pro w 4 1
Prunella vulgaris pro w 4 1
Ranunculus flammula pro w 11 3
Ranunculus parviflorus pro w 2 1
Ranunculus sardous pro w 12 3
Ranunculus sceleratus pro w 43 3
Ranunculus Section Ranunculus pro w T 6 2
Ranunculus Subgenus Batrachium pro w 31 3
Rubus idaeus pro w 4 1
Rumex crispus pro w 2 1
Sambucus nigra pro w 2 1
Sonchus oleraceus pro w 1 1
Stellaria media/neglecta pro w 15 3
Urtica dioica pro w 23 3
Urtica urens pro w 69 4
Zannichellia palustris pro w 666 5
Alisma plantago-aquatica pro w 25 3
Alnus glutinosa pro w 216 4
Arctium sp. pro w 1 1
Atriplex sp. pro w 5 2
Carduus cf. nutans pro w 1 1
Carex cf. pendula pro w 4 1
Carex cf. riparia/hirta pro w 1 1
Carex flava group pro w 2 1
Carex sp. pro w 4 1
cf. Daucus carota pro w 1 1
Chaerophyllum temulentum pro w 1 1
Chenopodium album/suecicum pro w 20 3


Sample: 1300b
Period Context Type Sediment Period Earliest date Latest date
PH.IA Hole 1 250 layer organic ?Iron age ? ?

Context integrity: 3
Context preservation: wl
Dating method: C14
Dating validity: 1
Environmental interpretion: cf. 1300a but fewer wetland taxa ? drying out
Archaeological interpretion: layer above 240cm (1300a)

Taxalist:
Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance
Aethusa cynapium pro w 1 1
Alisma sp. pro w 1 1
Alnus glutinosa pro w 1 1
Arctium sp. pro w 1 1
Atriplex sp. pro w 4 1
Ballota nigra pro w 5 2
Betula pendula pro w 1 1
Bilderdykia convolvulus pro w 3 1
Carduus cf. nutans pro w 1 1
Carex cf. disticha pro w 1 1
Carex cf. riparia/hirta pro w 3 1
Carex sp. pro w 1 1
Chenopodium album/suecicum pro w 62 4
Chenopodium cf. ficifolium pro w 8 2
Chenopodium polyspermum pro w 18 3
Cirsium cf. palustre pro w 51 4
Corylus avellana pro w 2 1
Fumaria sp. pro w 3 1
Galeopsis speciosa/tetrahit pro w 8 2
Gramineae pro w 1 1
Juncus sp. pro w 2 1
Lapsana communis pro w 2 1
Lathyrus/Pisum sp. pro w 1 1
Lychnis flos-cuculi pro w 4 1
Moehringia trinervia pro w 2 1
Polygonum hydropiper pro w 4 1
Polygonum lapathifolium pro w 2 1
Potentilla cf. anglica pro w 1 1
Potentilla cf. erecta pro w 1 1
Prunella vulgaris pro w 2 1
Prunus spinosa pro w 2 1
Ranunculus Section Ranunculus pro w T 29 3
Ranunculus Subgenus Batrachium pro w 2 1
Rubus fruticosus agg. pro w 7 2
Rubus idaeus pro w 1 1
Rumex sp. pro w 47 3
Sambucus nigra pro w 42 3
Sonchus asper pro w 1 1
Stellaria graminea pro w 1 1
Stellaria media/neglecta pro w 31 3
Triticum sp. spf c 1 1
Umbelliferae pro w 1 1
Urtica dioica pro w 12 3


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