I agree with Angela.
Cheers
Marco
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Marco Madella
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CaSEs Research Group
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> On 6 Mar 2017, at 16:24, Monckton, Angela <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> They look like a bit like fragments of grass stem, Poaceae culm fragments.
> If they need to be quantified I would only count the ones with culm nodes present.
> Sometimes grass culm bases or tiller bases are present which are more distinctive where the root bases can be seen.
> I have seem similar remains in cremation deposits but they are very variable and may include other stem types.
>
> Angela
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> Subject: Identification help
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> Dear Archaeobotany list,
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> thank you for the great help with my query in January.
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> Any ideas what these objects are?
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> I have many thousands of them from a large burnt surface (200 mē), perhaps a structure, from a Romano-British site.
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> Kind regards,
>
> Jonathan Baines
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