The charred fig from the Drumanagh excavation. This image was taken at a Historic England laboratory using an AHRC-funded Keyence VHX7000 3-D digital microscope at x 30 magnification.Credit: Historic England/University College Dublin
Posted on 02/28/2025 12:01:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
"Fig seeds dating to as far back as the 13th century have been recovered from excavations of medieval Dublin, Cork and other towns," said Associate Professor Meriel McClatchie, Director of the UCD Ancient Foods research group at UCD School of Archaeology.
"An actual fruit has never been found in Ireland until now, but what is most important about the Drumanagh fig is its antiquity. It is without parallel in Ireland and is by far the oldest example of an exotic fruit found here."
...The establishment of extensive trading routes within the Empire allowed Roman cuisine to become widely available, including new herbs and spices, nuts such as almonds, and fruits such as grapes, dates and figs.
Analysis by Associate Professor McClatchie at UCD has also revealed the presence of significant quantities of spelt wheat, a cereal that was rare in Ireland's past but was a staple of Roman Britain.
Drumanagh Promontory Fort is located on the coast between Loughshinny and Rush. It is a nationally important archaeological site and is of international significance in terms of Ireland's relationship with the Roman world.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
The charred fig from the Drumanagh excavation. This image was taken at a Historic England laboratory using an AHRC-funded Keyence VHX7000 3-D digital microscope at x 30 magnification.Credit: Historic England/University College Dublin
Doesn’t look like it’d make a good pudding - or newton.
No such thing as a good Fig Newton. It looks like they taste
Looks like it came from Aldi’s............................Pompeii Aldi’s..................
It figgers.
Not sure if that dates to before or after the arrival in Ireland of the Tuatha de Danaan, claimed by some to be the Tribe of Dan.
They weren’t the Tribe of Dan.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tuatha-De-Danann
Tuatha Dé Danann, (Gaelic: “People of the Goddess Danu”), in Celtic mythology, a race inhabiting Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians (the ancestors of the modern Irish). They were said to have been skilled in magic, and the earliest reference to them relates that, after they were banished from heaven because of their knowledge, they descended on Ireland in a cloud of mist. They were thought to have disappeared into the hills when overcome by the Milesians. The Leabhar Gabhála (Book of Invasions), a fictitious history of Ireland from the earliest times, treats them as actual people, and they were so regarded by native historians up to the 17th century. In popular legend they have become associated with the numerous fairies still supposed to inhabit the Irish landscape.
The oven was found, under a baker’s dozen feet of volcanic debris, and the hour glass had run out of sand about 1900 years earlier. That’s why the whole batch burned. Or somethin’.
These days, I’m very skeptical about claims by establishment historians.
Rather than accept their claims with blind faith, I prefer to speculate about which particular areas of history they might be inclined to obscure.
What were Newtons called before Isaac?..............
ooie gooie rich and chewy insides.
golden flaky tender caky outsides.
put the insides in the outsides is it good?
darn tootin’ it’s the big fig newton.
Besides figs, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Fig Foot-pounds. They didn’t sell well under that name.
Fascinating read linking the Tribe of Dan with the Tuatha de Danaan.
“Thus Dan, who was a ‘lion’s whelp’ who would ‘leap from Bashan,’ leaped all the way to Ireland, where historians explain that the early settlers were known as the ‘Tuatha de Danaan’ — literally, the ‘tribe of Dan.’ The Greeks called them the Danoi, the Romans called them Danaus.“
https://www.hope-of-israel.org/i000035a.htm
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That’s why you embrace old fictions from conventional historians of yesterday?
Truer words were never spoken. They weren't very good for trade, either.
To say I “embrace old fictions” is exaggeration and hyperbole.
Is it best we do only what the establishment tells us to do?
Maybe we should reject any consideration of new ideas?
Censor our thinking? I say no.
Trying to be a little more open is more reasonable.
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