Revealed After Over 700 Years, the Medieval Chemist's Shop

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FOR a medieval Scot with a sore head or a tummy ache, popping down to the local chemists wasn't really an option.

But now the discovery of a unique 'open-air pharmacy' is shedding light on the type of remedies used by William Wallace and his contemporaries.

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Revealed After Over 700 Years, the Medieval Chemist's Shop

Archaeologists working in the Lammermuir Hills near Edinburgh have identified a centuries-old herb garden which once supplied Scotland's largest medieval h...

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