04-12-2012, 04:54 PM
Natalia.
I do have a piece of a tooth from a wild boar that I found field walking near Hadrian's Wall, therefore I think we can safely say that Pork was on the menue for the troops this particular tooth has been cut by a saw so I would imagine the meat was also used.
Then having done much excavation back in the 70s it became evident that many animal bones and deer horn was being found that might suggest that meat was indeed a major part of the soldiers diet.
However for armies that are on the march or moving around a lot we can think of Veg' and a corn diet, but then even Rice being grown at places such as the terraces at Housesteads fort on the Wall so that would have been easy to carry on the march.
I do have a piece of a tooth from a wild boar that I found field walking near Hadrian's Wall, therefore I think we can safely say that Pork was on the menue for the troops this particular tooth has been cut by a saw so I would imagine the meat was also used.
Then having done much excavation back in the 70s it became evident that many animal bones and deer horn was being found that might suggest that meat was indeed a major part of the soldiers diet.
However for armies that are on the march or moving around a lot we can think of Veg' and a corn diet, but then even Rice being grown at places such as the terraces at Housesteads fort on the Wall so that would have been easy to carry on the march.
Brian Stobbs
