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Description: | A collection of faunal remains, found in association with a Late Roman pewter plate, fragments of Samian and greyware, and a late Roman coin.
The bones are mainly ribs and bones from the extremities of cattle limbs(Bos taurus), but show no clear evidence of butchery.
Full inventory:
1 metapodial, young cattle (Bos taurus), with unfused distal epiphysis.
1 1st phalanx, cattle, fused.
1 2nd phalanx, cattle, fused.
4 rib fragments, large mammal, roughly broken.
1 vertebral fragment, cattle.
10 unidentified fragments, probably of cattle cranial /vertebral elements.
4 unidentified longbone fragments, large mammal.
Total mass: 396g. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ashby, Steven - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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