ABCD: 1315

Orsett 75 Grays/Basildon

Site code:

1315

Site details:

Location: Orsett 75, Grays/Basildon, 1978, Essex, England TQ640810
Period: Neolithic/Iron Age
Category: settlement/causewayed encl.
Notes: early Iron Age pit cutting into Neolithic ditch deposits
Topography: lowland ?gravel river terrece
Condition: dry
Report type: cereal grain

Bibliography

Hubbard R N L B. 1978. Carbonised seeds. 294-5. In: Hedges J and Buckley D. Excavations at a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, Orsett, Essex, 1975. Proc. Prehist. Soc. 44. 319-208. England, Essex

Processed by

RNH - Hubbard, R N L B: Institute of Archaeology/NELP

Sample: 1315a

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
PH.IA.EI	CF110	pit fill	dark sandy loam	?early Iron Age	-500	-100
Context integrity: 1 Context preservation: bu Dating method: arc Dating validity: 1 Environmental interpretion: insufficient sample to interpret Archaeological interpretion: bell-shaped storage pit with domestic rubbish
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Bilderdykia convolvulus pro c Q + 1 cf. Vicia tetrasperma pro c Q + 1 Chenopodium album pro c Q + 1 Corylus avellana pro c Q + 1 Galium cf. aparine pro c Q + 1 Hordeum vulgare pro c Q! + 1 Lolium perenne pro c Q + 1 Polygonum arenastrum pro c Q + 1 Rumex sp. pro c Q + 1 Triticum dicoccon pro c Q + 1

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