Dropwort

Burnt tubers of the pink flower dropwort. These appears during the Iron Age and Viking Age but it is unsure how they were used. During the Middle Ages and onwards dropwort tubers were ground and mixed into bread, giving it an aromatic flavour. It has also been suggested that they may have been used as a flavouring in beer and mead. The dropwort is a close relative of, and very similar to, the mead wort, which can also be used for this purpose. But in this case it was not the tubers but the flowers that were used. Settlement find, Arninge, Täby Parish, Uppland.

Image rights: Myrin, Ola/SHM (Creative Commons Erkännande 4.0 Internationell Publik Licens)
Object number: 1188942_HST


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