Luxury food and pampered pooches in Iron Age Britain

Past Horizons ^ | 7/2012 | University of Reading

[Renfield]

University of Reading archaeologists have found evidence that Iron Age people in Britain were spicing up meals with foods and seasoning imported from around the Mediterranean.

Previously it had been assumed that prior to the Roman occupation of Britain, only liquid products such as olive oil and wine were imported from across the Channel. However archaeologists working at Silchester Roman Town in Hampshire have discovered that people of that time were importing Mediterranean seasoning as well as whole olives themselves....

[Renfield]

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Thanks Renfield. An olive stone from 150BC links pre-Roman Britain to today's pizzeria -- [snip] The excavators, led by Professor Mike Fulford of Reading University, also found another more poignant luxury import: the skeleton of a tiny dog, no bigger than a modern toy poodle, carefully buried, curled up as if in sleep. However it may not have met a peaceful end... [/snip] How Ancient Greeks Named Their Puppies World's Oldest Purse Found -- Studded With a Hundred Dog Teeth? To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.