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Neolithic Wild Food

Various illustrations commissioned for a museum project in North Wales. Created in Watercolour. 
Wild barley or wheat were ground to produce flour for bread or to make porridge. 
Various regional wild fruit, Crab Apple, Dog Rose haws, Rowan berries, Sloes, Wild Plumb, Wild Cherry, Bilberry/Wimberry, Blackberry and Wild Strawberry.  
Wild fungi available locally, Penny Bun, Beefsteak, Charcoal Burner, Field Mushroom and Bay Bolete. 
Honey sourced from wild bees. Salt water being boiled to produce essential salt crystals. Beer produced from barley and cider produced from wild crab apples. 
Herbs to add flavour, Wild Garlic,  Lady’s Smock and the lemony Wood Sorrel. 
Dairy products. From the left, butter being kept cool on a Butterbur leaf, various pots recreated from examples found with traces of dairy. The goatskin bag contains fermenting milk to produce kefir. 
Neolithic Wild Food
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Neolithic Wild Food

A recent commission to depict wild food available in North Wales during the Neolithic period. Commissioned by Penmaenmawr Museum, project require Read More

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