ABCD: 1697

Crookhorn 74-5 nr Portsmouth

Site code:

1697

Site details:

Location: Crookhorn 74-5, nr Portsmouth, 1989, Hampshire, England SU686074
Period: Romano-British late 3rd-early 4thcAD
Category: agricultural settlement
Notes: sites assoc. with Villa, cereals from corn drying oven
Topography: 50mOD chalk down dry valley
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Murphy P. 1989. Carbonised cereals and crop weeds from the corn drying oven. 96-9. In: Soffe G, Nicholls J and Moore G. The Roman tilery and aisled buildings at Crookhorn, Hants, excavations 1974-5. Proc. Hampshire Field Club Archaeol. Soc. 45. 43-112. England, Hampshire

Processed by

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

Sample: 1697a

Period	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
RO.RN.LR	049, 430	pit/corn drier fill	nr	Roman	200	350
Context integrity: 3 Context preservation: bu Dating method: pot Dating validity: 3 Environmental interpretion: preliminary analysis only Archaeological interpretion: large pits interpreted as corn drying kilns
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance Agrostemma githago pro c 1 1 Atriplex/Chenopodium sp. pro c 1 1 Avena sp. pro c 5 3 Bromus sp. pro c 2 1 Cerealia pro c 90 4 Hordeum vulgare pro c 13 3 Rumex sp. pro c 1 1 Triticum cf. spelta pro c ! 273 5 Triticum dicoccon glb c 1 1 Triticum sp. pro c 178 4 Triticum spelta glb c 33 4 Triticum spelta spf c 10 3

Sample: 1697b

	Context	Type	Sediment	Period	Earliest date	Latest date
	F26 & F25	flue & stoke pit fill	nr	Roman	300	350
Context integrity: 3 Context preservation: bu Dating method: ? Dating validity: 2 Environmental interpretion: corn drying oven - good dicussion on these Archaeological interpretion: double T shaped corn drying oven
Taxalist:
	Taxa name Part Preservation Problem code Quantity Abundance data not yet added**

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