The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)
CHAPTER ELEVEN RURAL LIFE AND FARMING --.... -- Peter J. Reynolds I n just the same way as it is impossible to isolate the Celts ...
Rural Life and Farming - To isolate an annual event in the archaeological data is virtually impossible. It is also true to say ...
Chapter Eleven - tenth century AD. Nevertheless, it is a complex tool comprising a main share which is in fact a pointed stick ...
Rural Life and Farming - In addition to the actual ard itself there are a number of rock carvings, primarily in the region of ...
Chapter Eleven - None of these could be used as a regular plough to create a tilth because the angle of presentation is such t ...
Rural Life and Farming - o o Figure 11.1 Rock carving from Krokholmen in the region of Bohuslan, Sweden, showing a double team ...
Chapter Eleven - agricultural day's work. Such an area can be ploughed, sown, hoed and reaped within a working day. There is s ...
Rural Life and Farming - The finds argue for wheat and barley as the predominant crops. Their presence and diversity, however, ...
Chapter Eleven - Figure 11.3 General view of Butser Ancient Farm, nr Chalton, Hampshire. (Copyright: Peter Reynolds.) Conditio ...
Rural Life and Farming - One particular plant, fat hen (Chenopodium album), occurs very regularly in the seed evidence from ir ...
Chapter Eleven - Figure II.4 Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum) at harvest time. (Copyright: Peter Reynolds.) The harvest, whethe ...
Rural Life and Farming - been singed off or alternatively beaten or flailed off. The presence of the flail is argued as early ...
Chapter Eleven - of problems of access and management. It is also likely that any grain stored in such buildings was kept in s ...
Rural Life and Farming - in training Dexters to the yoke ard to ploughing with replicated iron age ards has shown them quite c ...
Chapter Eleven - milked as well. In terms of bone survival it is quite remarkable that any escaped the omnivorous attentions o ...
Rural Life and Farming - for hardiness and aggression. The cocks have been much sought after as fighting birds. It is interest ...
Chapter Eleven - maintained a healthy herd of livestock, but that he did it remarkably successfully. One suspects the real eco ...
Rural Life and Farming - Figure 11.5 Two four-post overhead granaries under construction. (Copyright: Peter Reynolds.) accordi ...
Chapter Eleven - average 80-100 mm while the hazel rods or willow withies at the thickest point are no more than 25 mm in diam ...
Rural Life and Farming - suggesting the presence of a porch, the width of the doorway being twice the depth of the porch. This ...
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