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Dear Angela, It is an obvious question, but when you say 'removal', do you mean you have cut marks? I only ask because the extremities of these skeletons can quite often be absent either due to truncation or simply due to the fact that they were present but not recovered, for whatever reason. Kevin Kevin Rielly Archaeozoologist Museum of London Specialist Services Tel: 020 7566 9332 Fax: 020 7490 3955 [log in to unmask] http://www.molss.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: Angela [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 17 May 2004 17:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ZOOARCH] removal of horses hooves before burial Dear all When discussing the Roman horse burial discovered just to the south of Caesaromagus (in the 'Towns of Roman Britain'), John Wacher states that it is common even today for the hooves of a favourite animal to be saved and mounted as mementoes after death. I am involved in the recording of a horse skeleton which has had the phalanxes of the right fore leg removed and would like to have some other examples of this practise to compare it with. Can anyone point me in the right direction, please. many thanks Angela Fitzpatrick