Ahhhhhhhhh --! Relief! Thanks for the tip, Lena!
As to other sites with scurred or otherwise wierd cattle horns -- I've
seen several at Vindolanda. Some looked to me as if they'd been wired,
i.e. had wire wrapped around the horn bud in order to prevent or at least
inhibit normal horn formation. In other cases, the skull looked totally
polled to me, no scar or "scur" at all, but smooth. I'm not an expert on
cattle so I don't know when polled cattle were first bred, but I don't
think the polled ones were intrusives. Cheers -- Dr. Deb
> Dear Deb,
>
> Since it's not my article, I feel uncomfortable uploading it elsewhere.
> However, if you open the academia.edu link and scroll down you can read
> his article online. You only need to be a member of Academia.edu if you
> want to download it.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Lena
>
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> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Scurred/hornless cattle in Roman Britain
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> Lena, I'd love to look at your cattle horns but I am deathly allergic to
> both Google and Facebook. Yet when I click on the link you provide, the
> only way the Powers That Be will permit me to download the .pdf is if I
> "sign up" with one or the other of these dreadful upsuckers of personal
> data. Would it be possible for you to post them on Zoobook, where there is
> no such folderol? I would also ask this of everyone else who posts
> images....don't make innocent bystanders, who are here with no intentions
> other than to be helpful, sign up for, "enable cookies for", or buy into
> anything....please.
>
> Thanks very much -- Deb Bennett
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a fragment of a cattle frontal bone that looks like it might be a
>> scur (see
>> http://www.academia.edu/3522205/The_scurred_cattle_of_the_Roman_Period_in_the_Netherlands
>> ). Arjan Hullegie's article discusses Roman finds from the Netherlands,
>> but I wonder if anyone has observed scurs on Roman cattle from British
>> sites? Or, for that matter, hornless/polled cattle?
>>
>> With thanks,
>> Lena
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