Medieval Britain: Water, Waste and Food
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- Medieval Britain: Water, Waste and Food
- Water
- Towns
- Conduits were lead pipes which brought spring water to some towns
- Water sellers sold water from leather sacks
- Countryside
- Fresh water from springs or wells, springs sometimes used by animals too so water was not always completely clean
- Towns
- Food
- Meat and fish: people who could afford it ate a wide variety of meat. The church didn't allow people to eat meat on Friday's so fish was eaten instead.
- Bread: Nothing mattered more for people's daily lives than a good harvest and a plentiful supply of bread. The poor ate bread made from rye which could contain a fungus that lead to illness and death
- Pottage: a thick vegetable soup was widely eaten by medieval peasants.
- Ale and cider: ale was made by boiling water (which killed germs) and barley (full of nutrients). Cider was made in a similar way using apples. These drinks were heathier then water in towns.
- Waste
- Countryside
- Midden: a waste heap in the garden
- Some cesspits were constructed near village houses
- Waste used for fertiliser
- Towns
- Public latrines were often in market squares
- Rakers removed waste from towns
- Cesspits were used and then cleared by gongfermers., who took it outside of the townto be used on fields or tipped into streams
- Countryside
- Water
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