ABCD: 1674

Asheldham Camp 85 Dengie Peninsula

Site code:

1674

Site details:

Location: Asheldham Camp 85, Dengie Peninsula, 1991, Essex, England TL972012
Period: early Iron Age
Category: hillfort
Notes: trial trenches through defences, early IA and later disturbance
Topography: ?
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Murphy P. 1991. Cereals and cropweeds. 31-5. In: Bedwin O. Asheldham Camp - an early Iron Age hill fort: the 1985 excavations. Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 22. 13-37. England, Essex

Scaife R. 1991. Pollen analysis of the Iron Age land surface. 35-6. In: Bedwin O. Asheldham Camp - an early Iron Age hill fort: the 1985 excavations. Essex Archaeol. and Hist. 22. 13-37. England, Essex

Processed by

PM - Murphy, Peter L: Centre for East Anglian Studies, UEA, Norwich

Sample: 1674a

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
PH.IA.?	Trench F (	post hole & pit fills	nr	early Iron Age	?	?
Context integrity: 2 Context preservation: bu Dating method: pot Dating validity: 1 Environmental interpretion: - Archaeological interpretion: debris of a burnt down granary
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Avena fatua/ludoviciana flb c 7 1 Avena sativa flb c 25 3 Avena sativa flo c 3 1 Avena sp. awn c Q + 1 Avena sp. flb c 4 1 Avena sp. pro c 228 4 Avena/Bromus sp. pro c 198 4 Bilderdykia convolvulus pro c 10 2 Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus/secalinus pro c 933 4 Carex sp. pro c P 2 1 Caryophyllaceae pro c 1 1 Cerealia clm c 4 1 Cerealia plu c Q + 1 Cerealia pro c 1023 5 cf. Hordeum sp. awn c 1 1 cf. Onopordum acanthium pro c 1 1 cf. Plantago lanceolata pro c 3 1 cf. Secale cereale pro c 3 1 cf. Trifolium sp. pro c 1 1 Chenopodiaceae pro c 1769 5 Chenopodium album pro c 11 2 Chenopodium sp. pro c 1 1 Gramineae pro c 17 2 Hordeum sp. pro c 1 1 Hordeum sp. rai c ! 9 1 Hordeum vulgare pro c 491 4 Lathyrus/Vicia sp. pro c 2 1 Leguminosae pro c 1 1 Matricaria perforata pro c 82 3 Montia fontana ssp. chondrosperma pro c 1 1 Plantago lanceolata pro c 1 1 Polygonum lapathifolium pro c 1 1 Polygonum lapathifolium/persicaria pro c 39 3 Polygonum sp. pro c 1 1 Raphanus raphanistrum sil c 4 1 Rumex acetosella agg. pro c 1 1 Rumex sp. pro c 7 1 Stellaria graminea/palustris pro c 1 1 Triticum dicoccon glb c 252 4 Triticum dicoccon spf c 157 4 Triticum sp. awn c Q + 1 Triticum sp. glb c P 712 4 Triticum sp. pro c P 3811 5 Triticum sp. rai c P 111 4 Triticum sp. spf c P 386 4 Triticum sp. tri c 6 1 Triticum spelta glb c 202 4 Triticum spelta spf c 37 3 Triticum spelta spk c 1 1 Umbelliferae pro c 1 1

Sample: 1674b

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
PH.IA.EI	Trench A &	feature fills	nr	early Iron Age	?	?
Context integrity: 2 Context preservation: bu Dating method: pot Dating validity: 1 Environmental interpretion: - Archaeological interpretion: pit, post hole & shallow depression fills
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Avena sp. pro c 5 1 Bilderdykia convolvulus pro c 1 1 Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus/secalinus pro c 29 3 Cerealia clm c 2 1 Cerealia pro c 81 3 Chenopodium album pro c 1 1 Corylus avellana pro c Q + 1 Hordeum sp. pro c 6 1 Hordeum vulgare pro c 14 2 Polygonum sp. pro c 1 1 Triticum dicoccon glb c 5 1 Triticum sp. glb c 7 1 Triticum sp. pro c 170 4 Triticum sp. spf c 3 1 Triticum spelta glb c 1 1

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