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Food
During Anglo-Saxon times cooking was simple but there was wild fish and and deer to eat. There were also eggs, milk and cheese. Nuts and fruit in season. Honey was used for sweetening food and for making Meade to drink. The diet appears to be wholesome and varied.
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Roots Crops
The farm project at West Stow aims to grow crops that Anglo-Saxon farmers had in their fields, including beans, onions and other root crops as well as rye, flax or spelt wheat. Just like Anglo-Saxon farmers did the crops are moved each year in rotation to help keep the soil fertile. The fields were...
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Pigs
Pigs were kept, cattle grazed on the low lying meadows and sheep on the higher land to the north. Over 1 million animal bones were unearthed at West Stow, showing the main animals were cattle and sheep, also many pigs, as well as horses goats, dogs and cats. The bones of beaver, heron, swan, duck an...
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Spelt Wheat
After the Romans left the Roman social order and industrial disappeared, towns were abandoned but the land was farmed by new settlers like those at West Stow. There was a mixed farming economy. Spelt Wheat, rye and barley were frown, supplemented by wild-fowling, fishing and deer hunting. There were...
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The Workshop - Insid...
Drinking Horn - reconstruction of vessel found at other sites.
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The Living Home - W...
The fire in the living home. This home built in 1987. It has furnishing and fittings that may have been found in an Anglo Saxon home, including a cooking fire. So little is known, that nobody is sure if this is an accurate reflection but they were all made with materials that would have been availa...
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Anglo-Saxon Sheep
Baylam rare breed centre
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Anglo-Saxon Feast
Anglo-Saxon calendar, 11th century.
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