SC - Of Interest

[Mary Morman]

Murkial,

The term 'corn' in British English means, generically, grain.  In American
English we tend to use 'corn' to mean 'maize'.  There was no maize in 13th
century Europe, but there were lots of different kinds of corn - wheat,
barley, rye, etc.

Elaina

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Christi Redeker wrote:

> Not to bring up the long dead topic of whether corn is a period food item
> again, but I was directed to a web site discussing an excavation of a
> Carmelite Friary in Europe and I am attaching one of the web pages here:
> 
> http://www.bawue.de/~wmwerner/essling/english/karmel03.html
> 
> For those of you without web access, the site states the following:
> 
> "Perfectly preserved in the waterlogged sediments were the remains of a 13th
> century corn mill, consisting of the wooden foundations and an over 6 metre
> long water-wheel drife shaft."
> 
> I have written the owner of the site to get further information on this
> discovery.  But I thought you would all like to know.
> 
> Murkial
> 
> Christi Redeker
> Digital Equipment Corporation
> Colorado Springs, Colorado
> 719/592-4504
> christi.redeker at digital.com
> 
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