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bunnyjadwiga ([personal profile] bunnyjadwiga) wrote2008-03-17 05:06 pm

Squee!

Medieval apothecary garden found in Scotland-- thanks, Karen Larsdatter for posting this!

http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=137
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Chemists39-for-medieval-Scots-is.3884316.jp

More about the dig site:
http://archaeologynews.multiply.com/journal/item/231
http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.borthwick/LADAS/prog/01_soutra.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/234047/getting_to_the_roots_of_soutras_old_cures/

If you're in England, or at Yale: apparently copies of the reports of the
Soutra Hospital Archaeoethnopharmacological Research Project
The ... report on researches into the medieval hospital at Soutra can be obtained...