Ein archaologischer Rapsfund des 16. Jahrhunderts, entdeckt in Heide in Holstein, Norddeutschland

An archaeological find of oil‐seed rape from the 16th century discovered in Heide in Holstein, Northern Germany During archaeological excavations in the cellar of a 16th‐century house in Heide, Northern Germany, four stocks of crops were found. Two of them consisted of barley, one of rye and the last one of Brassica seeds. The circumstances of the finds, as well as the morphological criteria of the Brassica seeds, which also occur as a weed in the barley stocks, make it virtually certain that the Brassica seeds are oil‐seed rape Brassica napus .