I'm sorry but it looks like my previous message on the subject has arrived all muddled up, I'm trying again. Dear Stephanie, more references on bear findings: for late Iron Age: Powers R. 1967. Report on the bear phalanges. 42. In:Stead I M. A la Tene III burial at Welwyn Garden City.Archaeologia 101. 1-62. for late Roman: Luff R. 1993. Animal bones from excavations in Colchester, 1971- 85. Colchester Archaeological Report 12. Colchester: Colchester Archaeological Trust. for early Saxon: Crabtree P J. 1989. West Stow, Suffolk: early Anglo-Saxon animal husbandry.East Anglian Archaeol. 47. Cheers, Umberto Umberto Albarella Department of Ancient History and Archaeology University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT U.K. tel. +44/121/4147386 fax. +44/121/4145516 email [log in to unmask] http://www.bham.ac.uk/BZL %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%