(London Daily Mail) British homes may have had ‘mod cons’ as many as 4,000 years ago, according to archaeologists.
They have discovered what are believed to be some of the country’s earliest cold storage larders – precursors to the fridge – at a Bronze Age site.
The larders were uncovered by a team investigating six roundhouses found at a housing development site at Dunstaffnage, near Oban, Argyll – an early form of refrigeration used to keep milk and meat from going off.
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