10-20-2021, 11:31 PM
(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):
Nathan Ross