Dear Matty!
I know situations similar to this from Roman sites in Austria. The
question is sometimes if an existing (field)structure is used for the
placement of the cemetery, or if the structures/deposits are causally
related to the it, because "peripheral" areas are, normally, only
excavated in the case of cemeteries. There are, however, field
structures away from defined cemeteries with a similar faunal record
(disposed carcasses).
all the best
Karl
Matilda Holmes schrieb:
> Hi all
> I have an interesting deposit of cattle bones from a 4th century Roman cemetery site in Oxfordshire. They were apparently placed in an alignment c.50m long and 30cm wide, that marked the boundary of the cemetery. Although all skeletal elements are present, they do not seem to have been articulated at the time of deposition, when they were simply laid out on the ground.
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> I am putting this out there in case any of you have experience of anything similar? A basic search of the literature suggests that there is nothing obvious, but there is nothing like going straight to the specialists themselves!!
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> Thanks
> Matty
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