I saw a program om “The History Channel” about the largest battle ever fought in Britain.
Most people including me had never heard of it. They examined some of the bones etc. from the mass grave.
A few things surprised me. First they had excellent teeth. Second their diet was better than ours. They somehow calculated that from testing bones.
“A few things surprised me. First they had excellent teeth.”
Must have been before the Great Anti-Dentite purges.
british aristocracy teeth went bad sometime after 1500 with the introduction of sugar from the west indies. sugar rotted the teeth of lower classes as it became more inexpensive over the centuries. for the first couple hundred years or so it was an upper class luxury.