Pillas: Our forgotten grain – a talk by Harriet Gendall
Morrab Library“Pillas”—wrote Morton Nance in 1930— “sometimes called “pill-corn” or “naked oats, smaller than oats and without husk, was formerly a common crop in Cornwall, but seems now to have become quite extinct.” In earlier centuries, adventurers and botanists described this intriguing grain as cultivated in abundance near Land’s End, where it thrived on marginal […]