Dear all,
I have a frontal bone I can't place to species. It's cattle sized, from a Roman coastal site in south-eastern Britain. Above the orbit there is a large foramen (c. 1x1 cm), which all the cattle specimens I've seen are lacking. After the foramen the skull rises sharply towards the midline. Parts of the skull has been chopped off slightly behind the orbit, where the brain case begins, and the mid-part of the frontal bone is also broken off.
Any ideas? Is the foramen a non-metric trait for cattle, or is this another species altogether?
Pictures:
From the side: http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/P1030680.jpg
From above: http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/P1030681.jpg
From the front: http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/P1030682.jpg
From below: http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/P1030683.jpg
Thanks in advance,
Lena
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