Earlier this year, CA reported on excavations at a 2.3ha site called ‘Field 44’ near Tempsford in Central Bedfordshire, where archaeologists from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit found the remains of two Iron Age roundhouses and a Roman farmstead (CA 385). These excavations, carried out on behalf of National Highways as part of the proposed A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvement scheme, also uncovered a structure identified as a 3rd- or 4th-century malt-kiln or corn-dryer. Now post-excavation analysis has yielded further traces of Roman beer production at the site. The boggy ground and oxygen-poor … Continue reading Evidence of Roman beer production in Bedfordshire