Righto! Here goes ... a question!

A lot of oyster shell was found on an Anglo-Saxon settlement site about 
three miles upriver from the coast.  I know that during the Medieval 
period that fresh oysters were shipped inland in casks, but I wondered 
if they could have been processed in some way rather than sold fresh. 
One archaeologist said no, there wasn't a way to preserve them, but that 
isn't true. they can be dried (as the Chinese use them), smoked, 
preserved in oil, etc.

I don't think that is what was going on on this site (would be simpler 
to do it down by the shore, for one thing), but I wondered if there is 
evidence of oysters or other shellfish being preserved in such ways in 
ancient periods in Europe. Fish sauce, of course ...

I'm not aware of any such evidence in Britain, but does that mean it 
wasn't/couldn't have been done?

Eve

Toronto



On 24/07/2016 9:23 PM, Ralph Hancock wrote:
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