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  • Archaeologists' Intoxicating Find (WW-2 Beer)

    06/02/2005 10:34:15 AM PDT · by blam · 26 replies · 1,211+ views
    BBC ^ | 6-2-2005 | David Fuller
    Archaeologists' intoxicating find By David Fuller BBC News The bottles were in good condition, but the liquid inside was not Archaeologists searching for remains of a city's medieval past have made an intoxicating discovery - a cache of World War II beer. The hundred-or-so bottles of lager buried beneath Southampton's Guildhall Square were still capable of developing a head when they were opened. It is thought they had been stored in the cellar of an off-licence which was destroyed in the Blitz. The routine dig was to study the site before a new arts centre was built. Pete Cottrell, the...