Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne

S9E3 - Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne

Published: July 30, 2025

Duration: 41:03

My guests today are archaeologists Chris Wakefield from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit of Cambridge University Rachel Ballantyne from McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and they are here to tell me about an absolutely amazing site close to Peterborough that tell us a huge amount about daily life in a late Bronze Age settlement. Prepare to have your minds blown!

We talk about the unique circumstances of how and why the site is so well preserved, kitchen clutter, animal husbandry, querns, frumenty, pike sushi, and whether the English’s love of mustard goes back 3 millennia – among many other thin...