Resumen de Iron-Agers loved a pig trotter festival
It wasn't so much bring a bottle to British Iron Age parties, as bring a pig's leg. At a site in south Wales people apparently feasted almost exclusively on the right forelegs of pigs--a mysterious ritual they kept up for centuries. An Iron Age site at Llanmaes in the Vale of Glamorgan was a particularly important location--but the feasts that occurred there are unlike any others people know of from that time period. Excavations led by the National Museum Wales between 2003 and 2010 recovered a haul of 73,000 bone fragments, 70 per cent of them from pigs. Analyzing them, Richard Madgwick and his colleague Jacqui Mulville found a curious pattern: almost three-quarters of the limb bones came from the right foreleg. Radiocarbon dates on some of the bones suggest that gatherings were held at Llanmaes for at least 700 years--and always featured the right forelegs of pigs.
