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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...)