SC - bananas

[Jenne Heise]

> But, how/why would you "accidentally" import a banana peel from the
> Canaries? And maybe more telling, how would a peel from a maybe rotten
> banana get from the ship to a midden somewhere inland? I would expect
> any such refuse to get pitched or swept overboard, not carried inland.

Well, that's the theory. However, think about the things we excavate from our cars when
we come home from Pennsic... 

> Any idea how far this midden was from the ocean? Or maybe more important
> in this case, from the Thames?

Very, very close to the Thames. 'Inland' in this case isn't meaningful, as London was a
port city at the time...

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