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Flour or bread in a Roman military ditch at Bearsden, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Dr James H. Dickson and Mrs Camilla A. Dickson, Department of Botany, University of Glasgow, and Dr David J. Breeze, Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, Scottish Development Department, Edinburgh, examine the possibility that cereal debris found in a Roman military ditch at Bearsden may be wholemeal flour or even bread.

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Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 207 , March 1979 , pp. 47 - 51
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1979

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