Orkney College Agronomy Institute has been researching bere for some
years now, also oats and wheat. Would be worth contacting them.
> http://www.agronomy.uhi.ac.uk/
Merryn
Allan Hall wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I have been asked by someone undertaking an historic reconstruction at a
> place in Galloway, S.W. Scotland, for some guidance as to the 'food
> available in 1570', specifically with reference to grains.
>
> I have suggested that bread wheat, 6-row barley and oats, and probably
> also rye, would have been available but I made the mistake of suggesting
> that some of the crops, at least, might have been morphologically taller
> than those grown today... if my correspondent is (as I suspect) planning
> an exhibition, short-growing wheat and barley is NOT going to look
> authentic, I think.
>
> Of course, he is now asking for sources for tall-growing crops of the
> right kind (serves me right!). Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>
> Allan
>
> -- Dr Allan Hall, English Heritage Senior Research Fellow, Department of
> Archaeology, University of York, The King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, U.K.
> Tel. +44 1904 434950/fax: 433902
>
> (You can e-mail me on arh1 or biol8 (i.e. BIOL8 not BIO18!) - but arh1
> is now preferred...)
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