Built by the 20th Legion around 142 AD and occupied to 165 AD Bearsden Fort has yielded a wealth of information about who lived there, what they ate and what conditions they lived in.
An analysis of the latrine found that they ate
- Dried figs
- Lentils and beans
- Coriander, dill and opium poppies for flavouring
- Emmer wheat for porridge; spelt wheat for bread
- Dried figs were shipped to Bearsden from the Mediterranean,
- Barley for soup
- Raspberries, celery and hazel-nuts
- Olive oil
Bearsden YouTube Tour
References
- Bearsden: A Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall | Digital Books (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. (David Breeze, 2020)
- Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House (Historic Scotland)
- Bearsden (The Antonine Wall Organisation)
