Dear Kate,
An assemblage with a high proportion of detached embryos
and hulled wheat glumes can be malting waste from the rubbing of
sprouted grain after drying and before rough milling. Roman
corndriers sometimes contain sprouts and spelt glumes as at the
Bancroft Villa, Milton Keynes. You should however have a few
sprouted and somewhat depleted looking grains in your assemblage if
this is the case.
Best wishes,
Mark
In message The archaeobotany mailing list <[log in to unmask]>,
"Nicholson, K.E." <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Dear all,
> Does anyone know the significance (if any) of large numbers of detached
> embryos in an assemblage of carbonised emmer wheat?
> Kate Nicholson
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