Dear All,

I have a large collection of sheep horncores from a late medieval/early post medieval site near Tower Bridge in London. I was wondering about sexing these items and came across a method described in Armitages Baynard's Castle thesis (1977, 83) where the sex can be determined (male, female and castrate) by the extent of the internal cavity (following Hatting 1975). Does anyone know if there has been any further work done on this sexing method?

All the best

Kevin

Refs:-

Armitage, P.L. 1977. The Mammalian Remains from the Tudor Site of Baynard’s Castle, London: A Biometrical and Historical Analysis, unpublished PhD Thesis, University of London.

Hatting, T. 1975. The influence of castration on sheep horns. In Clason, A.T. (ed) Archaeological Studies. 345-51.

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