We found large amounts of elm wood and pollen (besides of beech) in
context of a Roman temple area in an offering pit and nowhere else. The
site is Biesheim-Kunheim in France close to Rhine.
best wishes and curious about your interpretation...
Angela
Dana Challinor schrieb:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am analysing the charcoal from a probable bustum burial from Gloucestershire
> dating to the Early Roman period and it has a large quantity of elm in it.
> Has anyone come across a lot of elm in cremation contexts before? I'm not
> convinced that the elm was necesarily the fuelwood and I'm wondering if it
> might have been a coffin. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? My experience
> from other Roman cemeteries, including pyre sites and busta, is that the
> fuel used is nearly always oak and ash, so this one seems to be quite different.
> The other interesting thing is that the cremation was incomplete - the body
> was only partially charred.
>
> Many thanks
> Dana
>
>
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> Dana Challinor MA (Oxon), MSc
> Freelance Charcoal Specialist
>
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