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Dear Eva, What about beavers? There were some good examples of beaver bones with cut marks at Iron Age Haddenham - see: Evans, C. and D. Serjeantson (1988). “The backwater economy of a fen-edge community in the Iron Age: the Upper Delphs, Haddenham.” Antiquity 62(235): 360- 70. The full report on Haddenham is in press, but does not add much detail to the interim so far as the beavers are concerned. Best wishes Dale > --On 17 June 2003 09:29 +0100 Eva Fairnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Dear list members > > > > For my thesis, I am gathering data on fur-bearing animals within the > UK. > > I am interested in what species we have been skinning, processing or > > perhaps importing and using for fur, and when and where this has > taken > > place. My target species include dog, cat, wolf, fox, badger, > mustelids, > > hare, rabbit, squirrel, seal, bear. > > I am in the process of systematically searching various journals for > any > > bone reports that include fur-bearing species. I am recording presence > of > > relevant native and non-native species, and any data on the elements > and > > knife marks found. > > I would be very grateful and interested to hear about any data list > > members know about, published or unpublished, regarding sites and > species > > where there seems to be evidence of processing and/or the use of fur, > at > > whatever scale and at any time period. If anyone can think of any > less > > obvious species I may have overlooked, please also let me know. > > Many thanks > > > > Eva > > > > Eva Fairnell > > MSc in Zooarchaeology student at the University of York > > [log in to unmask] > Dale Serjeantson Visiting Research Fellow Department of Archaeology University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ Email: [log in to unmask]