Animal bones from Polsloe Priory
Back to Time PeriodA great change in the monasteries of late medieval and early Tudor England was a relaxation of their tough rules for a spartan life. Among them, a prohibition of eating meat was abandoned. This was dramatically illustrated in Polsloe Priory, where a major early 16th-century deposit of animal bones was recovered, indicating the nuns' consumption of meat on a large scale. Bones from choice cuts of beef were especially well represented.
Acknowledgments: Exeter Archaeology