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Hints of Spring
After the wettest year in England since records began, the new year kicked off with a dry, sunny January 1st. The next day it rained, but that one day of sunshine seemed to lift everyone’s spirits. Then yesterday Maisie noticed … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged aconites, hazel, hellebore foetidus, Hellebore orientalis, hellebores
Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 3
In this experiment I was not so much concerned with yield, as with storage. Having grown hazels for nearly twenty years, I do not need to be convinced of their productivity and to some extent estimates of ancient yield are … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 2
My interest in hazel nuts began on my first dig, back in 1963 when I was a volunteer excavator on an Iron Age hillfort in Bedfordshire, about half an hour’s drive from my parents’ house. I’d just passed my driving … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
Preliminary Musings: Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food?
Prehistory and archaeology are subjects where traditions die hard and where orthodoxies can rule the roost for generations. It must be great to prick balloons, but having said that, I don’t think I’m a great believer in acting the iconoclast: … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged archaeology, Corylus avellana, Francis Pryor, hazel, hazelnuts, Maisie Taylor, trees, writing
