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ABCD: 1705

St Nicholas Church Gloucester

Site code:

1705

Site details:

Location: St Nicholas Church, Gloucester, 1985, Gloucestershire, England SO8318
Period: medieval
Category: deposit
Notes: organic matter from watching brief
Topography: ?
Condition: dry
Report type: macrofossil reports

Bibliography

Straker V and Heighway C. 1985. Organic matter from medieval deposits outside St Nicholas Church, Gloucester. Trans. Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol. Soc. England, Gloucestershire

Processed by

VS - Straker, Vanessa: DUA London/Bristol Univ

Sample: 1705a

Period

Context

Type

Sediment

Period

Earliest date

Latest date

PR.MD

16 & 19

street layer

organic

medieval

1000

1300

Context integrity: 1
Context preservation: wl
Dating method: pot
Dating validity: 1
Environmental interpretion: stable sweepings or animal dung
Archaeological interpretion: between layers of street metalling

Taxalist:

Taxa name	Part	Preservation	Problem code	Quantity	Abundance
Achillea millefolium	pro	w		3	1
Anthemis cotula	pro	w		161	4
Aphanes cf. microcarpa	pro	w		1	1
Atriplex sp.	pro	w		3	1
Atriplex/Chenopodium sp.	pro	w		2	1
Caltha palustris	pro	w		1	1
Carduus sp.	pro	w		16	3
Carex sp.	pro	w		3	1
Caryophyllaceae	fgt	w		2	1
Centaurea sp.	pro	w		2	1
Cerastium sp.	pro	w		1	1
Cerealia	clm	w		2	1
cf. Chrysanthemum segetum	pro	w		1	1
cf. Oenanthe sp.	pro	w		1	1
cf. Torilis sp.	pro	w		1	1
cf. Triticum sp.	rch	w		36	3
Chenopodium sp.	pro	w		20	3
Chrysanthemum segetum	pro	w		6	2
Cyperaceae	pro	w		3	1
Eleocharis Section Palustres	pro	w		144	4
Euphrasia/Odontites sp.	pro	w		7	2
Fragaria vesca	pro	w		1	1
Gramineae	pro	c		1	1
Gramineae	pro	w		66	4
Hordeum sp.	rai	w		3	1
Hyoscyamus niger	pro	w		1	1
indet.	pro	w		20	3
Juncus sp.	pro	w	P	88	4
Lapsana communis	pro	w		8	2
Leontodon sp.	pro	w		13	3
Lychnis flos-cuculi	pro	w		1	1
Plantago major	pro	w		3	1
Polygonum aviculare agg.	pro	w		9	2
Polygonum sp.	pro	w		6	2
Prunella vulgaris	pro	w		4	1
Ranunculus acris/bulbosus/repens	pro	w		17	3
Ranunculus flammula	pro	w		3	1
Rubus sp.	pro	w		1	1
Rumex acetosella	pro	w		3	1
Rumex sp.	per	w		7	2
Rumex sp.	pro	w		9	2
Sambucus nigra	pro	w		1	1
Solanum nigrum	pro	w		3	1
Sonchus asper	pro	w		6	2
Stellaria media agg.	pro	w		4	1
Torilis sp.	pro	w		1	1
Umbelliferae	pro	w		1	1
Urtica dioica	pro	w		4	1
Urtica urens	pro	w		11	3
Valerianella rimosa	pro	w		2	1

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