Check out Passiflora--if this were Eastern North America it would be
maypops Passiflora incarnata. I don't know what species would be likely
in your context.
Margaret Scarry
Research Labs of Archaeology
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
O'BRIEN C.E. wrote:
> Can anyone help to identify this seed?
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> It is from a ditch fill on a site in North Lincolnshire (probably
> Roman). The scale bar is in millimetres, so it is just under 6mm long
> and as the side view shows, it wants to split in two. The few other
> charred remains in the context were barley grains and arable weeds.
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> Charlotte
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