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Posted by TonyG (U1830405) on Friday, 1st August 2008
Does anyone know when domesticated chickens arrived in Britain? I have found reference to chicken bones being found in Egypt from 2,500 BC and I presume the Romans must have kept chickens.
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:46 GMT, in reply to TonyG in message 1
The Romans certainly kept chickens for religious purposes - auguries, sacrifices and whatnot - and for eggs (probably at the same time!). Chicken meat was considered a relative luxury. IIRC, chicken bones have been found at the Mithraeum at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall, presumed to be sacrifices and/or the ceremonial meals which seem to have formed a central rite of the cult.
Auguries.
Claudius Pulcher and the chickens at the Battle of Drepana;
That would be the invasion of the UK by Col Sanders around the mid 1960's.
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:55 GMT, in reply to Triceratops in message 3
Claudius Pulcher and the Chickens? Weren't they an entry in Eurovision?
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