Archaeological Excavations at East Rainton, Tyne and Wear and Acomb, Northumberland: Medieval Corn Dryer
| Autor: | Vance, Scott |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| DOI: | 10.5284/1101236 |
| Popis: | Archaeologia Aeliana, 50.5, 229-290 Archaeological excavations were undertaken by Pre-Construct Archaeology prior to housing developments at Rainton Green, East Rainton, Tyne and Wear and Birkey Heights, Acomb, Northumberland in 2016. At East Rainton a long sequence of activity was uncovered dating from the Iron Age and throughout the medieval period. At Acomb a shorter period of activity was uncovered with all features of medieval or later date. What linked both sites was the presence of very well-preserved medieval corn dryers, four uncovered at East Rainton and three at Acomb, located on the edges of the medieval villages. Most of these structures were built with a similar pear-shaped construction cut, with stakeholes around the perimeter of the bowls for the timber uprights of a wattle and daub oven structure, within which the cereals would have been dried. AMS dates from this type of corn driers indicates that they were in use during the eleventh to twelfth centuries. A stone-lined keyhole corn dryer was also present at both sites, at East Rainton this was in use at the same time as the timber and clay ovens, but the Acomb example was in use in the fourteenth to fifteenth century. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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