Dear all,
I have a cattle molar from an early Iron Age site in Oxfordshire (UK) with a
strange wear pattern. Although generally the tooth is worn to stage J (Grant
1982) the ancillary cusp has been completely worn away at a very steep angle
from the middle of the second cusp. It does look like wear rather than a chop
from striations on the exposed surface. Does anyone have any suggestions for
why the tooth may be worn in this way?
Thanks
Fay Worley
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Fay Worley
PhD Research
Department of Archaeological Sciences
University of Bradford, BD7 1DP.
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