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Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 3
In this experiment I was not so much concerned with yield, as with storage. Having grown hazels for nearly twenty years, I do not need to be convinced of their productivity and to some extent estimates of ancient yield are … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food? Part 2
My interest in hazel nuts began on my first dig, back in 1963 when I was a volunteer excavator on an Iron Age hillfort in Bedfordshire, about half an hour’s drive from my parents’ house. I’d just passed my driving … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged cobnuts, Coryllus maxima, Corylus avellana, hazel, hazelnuts
