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In the course of his novels, Ian Fleming describes in some detail seventy meals that James Bond consumes or considers eating. This article examines Bond's diet. Treating the food as artifacts and using the analytical methods of archaeology, it attempts to provide better understanding of its composition, and place it in social context. Three conclusions are drawn from the study. Bond's diet is nutritionally unbalanced when compared with recommended healthy-eating diets of the 1950s and modern times. However, there is order in Bond's food choices, in that particular foods are associated with specific meals. Finally, Bond's diet is near-identical to Fleming's, whose financially and socially-rich lifestyle--with at least two months each year spent in Jamaica--gave him access to a range of foods that, while normal to him, was far from the everyday experience for the book-buying public. Keywords: Keywords: James Bond, Ian Fleming, diet, archaeology, 1950s, An Introduction to the Food of 007 Food is as much a part of the James Bond books as travel, champagne and cocktails, beautiful women, villains and violence. Ian Fleming [...]

Oxford Archaeology carried out a programme of archaeological investigation between 2014 and 2016 at Worthy Down Camp near Winchester. Apart from worked flint of possible Mesolithic date, the earliest archaeological evidence belonged to the late Neolithic period in the form of a pit, which contained finds that appeared to consist of mixed midden material relating to everyday subsistence and a specialised focus on pig-keeping. Two pits were dated to the middle Bronze Age. One pit contained the remains of at least five pottery vessels in Deverel-Rimbury style. The results of organic residue analysis suggest that some of the vessels had been used to process dairy products. Occupation resumed in the late Bronze Age after a hiatus. The features assigned to this period were dispersed but relate to settlement and farming activity. Parts of a large ditch shown by cropmarks to extend for several kilometres were uncovered in the excavation. Dating evidence suggests that the ditch continued to receive material into the late Roman period or beyond, but it is possible that the ditch was originally dug as a boundary or trackway in the Iron Age or earlier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Excavations between 2009 and 2011 to mitigate the impact on archaeological remains of the widening of the M25 revealed dispersed prehistoric activity in the form of small pits containing flints, pottery or burnt stone of Beaker period and Bronze Age date at five sites. An early-middle Iron Age presence was revealed at Chorleywood, including a short length of ditch, which may have formed part of an enclosure of Iron Age date, while a scatter of small features dating from early Iron Age to middle Roman along a hedgeline may represent the periphery of an open settlement set within fields. At Bricket Wood field boundaries and droveways dividing up the rural landscape may have originated in the middle Iron Age, but the sparse quantity of datable artefacts suggests their main phase of use was the late Iron Age and early Roman period. Within the fields an area of pottery production was found comprising kilns and possible pot drying ovens. Artefactual evidence included a large quantity of pottery and fired clay kiln furniture and structure. The main products of the kilns were red-surfaced jars, beakers and flagons in a grog-tempered fabric. A complex of large quarries close by may have provided materials for surfacing local droveways and subsequently was used as a waterhole with timber revetting surviving in the base. The waterlogged sediments in the base of this feature provided a rich array of environmental evidence indicating the area was largely an open pastoral landscape with hedges and some woodland, probably managed coppice, providing fuel for the pottery industry. The pottery industry is unlikely to have continued much beyond AD 50/55 and was probably supplying Verulamium. Activity declined thereafter, though the fields continued in use and a small rectangular timber building was constructed in the second century, isolated within the fields. Thereafter the area remained a rural agricultural landscape with an isolated crop-drying oven constructed in the mid-twelfth century, and a concentration of thirteenth-century pottery on the western edge of the site suggests a short-lived settlement existed to the south-west of the excavation. Sometime after the medieval activity, the layout of fields, which survived until the twentieth century, came into existence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]