MARK MCKERRACHER is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil – studying Mid Saxon agriculture – in 2014. After working in museum archiving, software development and freelance archaeobotany, he is currently researching medieval farming practices as part of the ERC-funded Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project (FeedSax). His interests include archaeobotany, database development, agricultural production and Anglo-Saxon archaeology, and he writes a popular blog – The Corn Lore – which explores the science, culture, economy, history and archaeology of cereals (www.mjmckerracher.co.uk).

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• Chapter 1: Seeds of Change; Chapter 2: Describing the Data; Chapter 3: Surveying the Species; Chapter 4: Defining the Deposits; Chapter 5: Counting the Crops; Chapter 6: The Witness of Weeds; Chapter 7: More than the Sum of their Parts; Appendix 1: Key Parameters; Appendix 2: Key Metadata; Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix 4: Inventory of Samples; Appendix 5: Inventory of Plant Taxa; Bibliography

MARK MCKERRACHER is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil – studying Mid Saxon agriculture – in 2014. After working in museum archiving, software development and freelance archaeobotany, he is currently researching medieval farming practices as part of the ERC-funded Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project (FeedSax). His interests include archaeobotany, database development, agricultural production and Anglo-Saxon archaeology, and he writes a popular blog – The Corn Lore – which explores the science, culture, economy, history and archaeology of cereals (www.mjmckerracher.co.uk).

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• Chapter 1: Seeds of Change; Chapter 2: Describing the Data; Chapter 3: Surveying the Species; Chapter 4: Defining the Deposits; Chapter 5: Counting the Crops; Chapter 6: The Witness of Weeds; Chapter 7: More than the Sum of their Parts; Appendix 1: Key Parameters; Appendix 2: Key Metadata; Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix 4: Inventory of Samples; Appendix 5: Inventory of Plant Taxa; Bibliography

MARK MCKERRACHER is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil – studying Mid Saxon agriculture – in 2014. After working in museum archiving, software development and freelance archaeobotany, he is currently researching medieval farming practices as part of the ERC-funded Feeding Anglo-Saxon England project (FeedSax). His interests include archaeobotany, database development, agricultural production and Anglo-Saxon archaeology, and he writes a popular blog – The Corn Lore – which explores the science, culture, economy, history and archaeology of cereals (www.mjmckerracher.co.uk).

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• Chapter 1: Seeds of Change; Chapter 2: Describing the Data; Chapter 3: Surveying the Species; Chapter 4: Defining the Deposits; Chapter 5: Counting the Crops; Chapter 6: The Witness of Weeds; Chapter 7: More than the Sum of their Parts; Appendix 1: Key Parameters; Appendix 2: Key Metadata; Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Sites; Appendix 4: Inventory of Samples; Appendix 5: Inventory of Plant Taxa; Bibliography