Archaeological News: An olive stone from 150BC links pre-Roman Britain to today's pizzeria
Iron Age Britons were importing olives from the Mediterranean a century before the Romans arrived with their exotic tastes in food, say archaeologists who have discovered a single olive stone from an excavation of an Iron Age well at at Silchester in Hampshire.
The stone came from a layer…
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That’s right people. Shocking I know. That there may have been trade before Rome. lol
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Ancient trade was awesome.
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