Trading across medieval Europe revealed in cod bones Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent The catastrophic decline of North Sea cod as the result of over fishing has had an impact on all our menus, from the poshest restaurants to the corner chippie: the fish left are few and small, compared with those of less than a century ago. Cod more than a metre in length are rare these days, whereas archaeological remains show that fish several times that size were common. A new study shows that cod were exploited in the Middle Ages from many, often distant, fishing grounds, with an...