Landscapes of Roman Britain
Gresham College Lectures
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The Roman Economy and the Sheep in the Burnby Lane Site
There is a traditional route way if you like for driving stock from summer pasture up on the top of the walls those large sort of ranges we were looking at earlier. Down to the lowlands for sort of lambing and presumably for sale into the Roman economy. It looks like it's a predominantly sheep rearing economy. There are also a large number of deposits of feasting debris from sheep, not just discarded but buried as well. So what we're seeing is something that's quite difficult to imagine what's going on but it's very deliberate.
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