10-21-2021, 06:24 AM
(10-20-2021, 11:31 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote:(10-20-2021, 10:01 PM)Crispianus Wrote: you can in fact find out what the population of colchester was eating and drinking on the day the town was burnt with a high degree of certainty... a little bit of pompeii...
Fascinating! I wonder if any of the food or other traces might tell us more about what time of year the destruction took place, as some people claim about Pompeii?
This is from Radford and Gascoyne's Colchester, Fortress of the War God: an Archaeological Assessment (2013):
Maybe the Dates the harvesting season seems to be early August and were on the stalk so potentially could have been transported early, but they may have been from the previous year?
2014 from the Williams and Griffin site: https://www.thecolchesterarchaeologist.co.uk/?p=33680
unfortunatly I'm a bit behind on the archaeology but there may be some indication...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
