Context (Display)
Mounted on patterned paper-wrapped display board with handwritten label reading 'BEANS. BLACK ASH DITCH, BARTON. A 1908.60 G'; label to reverse of board reads: 'Beans from black ash ditch, Barton, C. The Camb. Ant. Soc. See Proc. C.A.S., vol. xii. (A. 1908.60i [sic])'.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Display)
Old display label found with object reads: 'A 1908.51-75/ OBJECTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT BARTON, C., 1908. (Superintended by the Rev. F.G. Walker) The Cambridge Antiquarian Society. See: Walker: Proc. C.A.S., vol. XII.'
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1908.60 [A-K]: 'Fragments of animal, bird and fish bones; oyster, snail and other shells; egg-shells; seeds of barley, vetch and bean, hazelnuts; fragments of burnt straw, wattle and daub, glass, etc.'
Event Date 1908
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Walker, F. G. (1908). ‘Report on the Excavations at Barton’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 12(4). pp. 296-313.
Event Date 1908
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Black Ash Ditch. Excavated by Rev. Frederick George Walker, sponsored by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, in 1908.
Event Date 1908
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1908.60 G[.1-12]: 'Barley, vetch, pea, beans, hazel nuts, straw etc. One fragment of an ear of barley; white ash containing seeds; black earth containing seeds; burnt straw and grass and barley straw.'
Event Date 22/8/2001
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
In his 1908 article, Rev. F.G. Walker dated most of the finds from his Barton Moats excavation to the Iron Age (‘late Celtic’) and Roman periods, which was then reflected in their Accession Register and Annual Report entries. In 1956, John G. Hurst ('Saxo-Norman Pottery in East Anglia.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 49. p. 50) identified the site and most of the finds as being Saxo Norman in date and, presumably on this basis, in 1978 Mary Cra’ster amended the 1908 Accession Register entry to read ‘Saxo Norman’. When this record was digitised, however, it was entered as ‘Saxo Norman; Iron Age’; it has now been updated and ‘Iron Age’ removed.
Event Date 12/2/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
One clump of carbonised bean.
Event Date 14/2/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang