Internet Archaeol. 40. Atkinson and Preston. Table 206: Foods available by period

Table 206: Foods available at Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex, by period

Summary of the evidence for food from plant and fish remains found in samples, together with shells and animal bones from archaeological excavations at Heybridge, Essex.

Key: * = pollen, Ins = insects, ++ = abundant, # = exotic plants, imported or introduced, fam. = family.
Period	Cereals, Crops	Herbs, Edible plants	Fruit and nuts	Meat	Poultry and game	Fish and Shellfish	Other Food and Drink
LIA - E. ROMAN Period 2 Mid 1st - Early 2nd C.	Spelt Emmer B.wheat Barley Flax Cereal*	Legumes?	Hazel nuts Bramble Sloe	Beef Mutton Pork Red deer	Chicken Duck Sm wader Woodcock	Eel Shad Sm Gadid Plaice Flounder Mullet fam. Oysters Mussels	Milk (goat)
E.ROMAN Period 3 Mid 2nd - 3rd C.	Spelt ++ B.wheat Barley Oat, wild Emmer Stored grain (Ins.) Flax Peas*	Coriander# Dill # Beet? Opium-poppy # Cornsalad Mint (Sainfoin)	Hazel nuts Walnut # Hawthorn Elder Bramble Sloe Cherry # Bullace Plums #	Beef Mutton Pork Roe deer	Chicken Swan Ducks Plover Sm Wader	Eel Herring Shad Salmonid Saithe Sm Gadid Flounder Plaice Oysters ++ Mussels Whelks Cockle	Milk (goat) Honey (bee) MALT/beer
MIDDLE ROMAN Period 4 4th C.	Spelt ++ Emmer few Barley few Oat few Peas* Grapevine*	Mint Wild celery	Hazel nuts Sloe Bramble Elder	Beef Mutton Pork Deer	Chicken Geese Teal Woodcock Sm Wader	Eel Herring Salmonid Whiting Poor cod Mackerel Flounder Oysters ++ Mussels Whelks	Milk (goat) MALT/beer Grapes/wine
MID-LATE ROMAN Period 4-5	Spelt B.wheat Emmer few Barley few Peas*	Mint	Hazel nuts Bramble Elder Sloe Cherry # Grape #	Beef Mutton Pork Deer	Chicken Ducks Woodcock Plover Curlew	Fish present Oysters+ Mussels Whelks
LATE ROMAN Period 5	Spelt ++ B.wheat few Barley Oat, few	Mustards? Legumes?	Hazel nuts Sloe Cherry #	Beef Mutton Pork Red deer Hare	Chicken Geese Ducks Plover Woodcock Sm wader	Eel Herring Pike? Red mullet Grey mullet Plaice Flounder Dab Halibut Oysters Mussels Whelks Cockle
L.ROMAN-SAXON Period 6	Barley Spelt	Legumes?	Hazel nuts	Beef Mutton Pork Red deer Roe deer	Chicken Geese Ducks Woodcock	Fish present Oysters Mussels Whelk