Bearsden Bath House
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 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)
