Perhaps Cornus sanguinea. While reading an article by B. Cooremans on a Roman cemetery I ran into a picture of a (charred) Cornus sanguinea stone fruit not dissimilar from the one in the attached picture. B. Cooremans, 2008. The Roman cemeteries of Tienen and Tongeren: results from the archaeobotanical analysis of the cremation graves. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17. Groeten! Arnoud 2012/10/5 M. Schepers <[log in to unmask]> > Dear all, > > In a post-Medieval cess pit from the southern Netherlands we found an as > yet unidentified woody fruit type, which seems to be some sort of an > endocarp. The thickness of the fruit wall is about 2-3 mm, the scale bar on > the pictures is 5cm. > > Please reply to all, or to [log in to unmask] > > Kind regards, > > Yotti and Mans > > -- > M.(Mans) Schepers MA > University of Groningen > Groningen Institute of archaeology > Botany group > Poststraat 6 > 9712 ER Groningen > The Netherlands > [log in to unmask] > +31 50 363 6741 > +31 50 363 6738 (lab) > +31 6 4459 4715 > >