{"id":1031,"date":"2009-06-13T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2009-06-13T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T17:28:46","slug":"roman-introduced-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/roman-introduced-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Roman-Introduced Species to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/resourcesforhistory.com\/Images\/photos\/mosaic%20of%20winter.jpg\" alt=\"Chedworth Villa, Winter - holding a brown hare| \u00a9 The National Trust\" width=\"175\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chedworth Villa, &quot;Winter - holding a brown hare| \u00a9 The National Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some introduced species to Britain by the Romans include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brown hare, Roman snail<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Peacocks, guinea fowl, pheasants, domestic <a class=\"pos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A634655\" target=\"_top\">cats<\/a> and possibly fallow deer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230;vegetables such as cabbages, peas, celery, onions, parsnips, leeks, turnips, cucumbers, radishes, carrots and asparagus, as well as fruit, including plums, pears, grapes, apples and cherries and nuts such as walnuts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition, they brought over lilies, violets, pansies, poppies and the (somewhat less pleasant) <a class=\"pos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A1310950\" target=\"_top\">stinging nettle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">see <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=Z7XGFSp3drkC&amp;pg=PA192&amp;lpg=PA192&amp;dq=Roman+introduced+species+to+britain&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=bcve_lmWBf&amp;sig=Xtn8ip4nowRf05op0lYS2MQTRUs&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=ItkzStHbD8-2jAfJ8amgCg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=3\" target=\"_blank\">The Archeology of Animals<\/a>, Simon Davis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/h2g2\/A3436616\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some introduced species to Britain by the Romans include: Brown hare, Roman snail, Peacocks, guinea fowl, pheasants, domestic cats and possibly fallow deer. &#8230;vegetables such as cabbages, peas, celery, onions, parsnips, leeks, turnips, cucumbers, radishes, carrots and asparagus, as well as fruit, including plums, pears, grapes, apples and cherries and nuts such as walnuts. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/roman-introduced-species\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Roman-Introduced Species to the UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}