I think archaelogy is cool. Not cool enough for me to kneel in the dirt and hot sun searching for artifacts with just a toothbrush, but I’m definitely fascinated by “lost” bits of civilization.

Medieval maltings found at famous brewer

But the unearthing of an expansive domed area and flue beyond the [Bury St Edmunds] Abbey’s boundary shows there was at least one other large-scale brewer in the town at the time - and that the town had a precursor to Greene King.

The structure is thought to be a medieval malting, which was used to process and then heat soaked barley.

Appropriately enough, the discovery was made beneath the North Yard of the town’s present day brewing giant Greene King, which invited in the archaeologists before clearing up the yard for building work nearby.

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