Black Cherry Pits (Prunus serotina)

Black cherry (Prunus serotina). Total weight: 41.77 grams. Recovered from a discrete deposit that contained an abundance of coffee beans and black cherry pits found from 11 to 13 feet south of decking column C 15 and from 7.8 to 10.8 feet below ground surface (2.4 to 5.4 feet below sea level). See Chapter 6: E.4. WHS D of SFT report, 2012. See Figure 5.81 of the report for a photograph of cherry pits and coffee beans in situ at WHS D.

• Object number

  2

• Animals/objects

  Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)

• Category

  Food Related

• Class

  Flora

• Functions

  Fruit

• Material

  Pit

  Seed

  Botanical sample

• Context

  1439- South Ferry - Whitehall Slip 15598.082