Burnt grain and crop cleaning residues

from postholes to identify and delineate agrarian and household activities within settlements. The
paper presents the analyses of seven houses/farmsteads dating to the 3rd–6th century AD, which were
excavated on four separate sites: Flensted, Skovby Nygård and Gedved Vest in east-central Jutland, and
Odensevej on the island of Funen.
To infer settlement activities from the distributions of carbonised plant macro remains, the paper
defines the various stages of plant processing and carbonisation circumstances. It also discusses
assumptions about plant processing sequences and the formation of charred plant assemblages that
were made during the analysis.
The results show that the distribution of charred plant macro-remains can assist in the identification and
delineation of spaces with different functions. The presented cases identify the locations of dwelling
spaces, spaces where processed crops were stored and/or used, and spaces where fine sieving of grain
was performed. The results also show a similarity between the analysed houses, which suggests the
existence of a regional tradition of ordering household space. These patterns also confirm assumptions
about mid-1st millennium houses previously made on the basis of other archaeological evidence.