Editing Calleva Atrebatum (section)

=== Diet ===
The study of plant remains from the across the city and especially Insula IX have shown that [[spelt]], wheat and barley were the most common cereals consumed. A wide range of fruits (apple, fig, grape), flavourings (celery, coriander, dill), and pulses (celtic bean, pea) were consumed.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lodwick|first=Lisa A.|date=2016-01-07|title='The debatable territory where geology and archaeology meet': reassessing the early archaeobotanical work of Clement Reid and Arthur Lyell at Roman Silchester|journal=Environmental Archaeology|volume=22|issue=1|pages=56–78|doi=10.1080/14614103.2015.1116218|s2cid=162420770|issn=1461-4103|url=http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/54531/1/Lodwick_2016.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Agricultural innovations at a Late Iron Age oppidum"/> Many houses had their own rotary [[Quern-stone|querns]] for grinding flour.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=[[Ruth Shaffrey|Shaffrey]]|first=Ruth|date=2003|title=The Rotary Querns from the Society of Antiquaries' Excavations at Silchester, 1890-1909|journal=Britannia|volume=34|pages=143–174|doi=10.2307/3558543|issn=0068-113X|jstor=3558543|s2cid=163126925}}</ref> Cattle, sheep/goat and pig were the major sources of meat.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Silchester and the Study of Romano-British Urbanism|last=Ingrem|first=Claire|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|year=2012|editor-last=Fulford|editor-first=Michael|location=London|pages=184–212|chapter=Animals in the economy and culture of Roman Britain: a case study from southern England}}</ref>