Dear zooarchers,
I’m afraid of getting
branded as the “lady with the weird deposits”… However, I can
use some help. After the Roman ritual shaft from Springhead filled with lots of
dogs, I am now working on a Late Bronze Age burial pit from Ramsgate (UK). I
have not yet looked at all the material, but the pit contains at least one
incomplete horse, a cattle cranium, mandibula and
attached atlas and epistropheus as well as a complete
lower front leg of cattle. Furthermore, the pit contains several (in)complete skeletons of unborn lamb. To make it all even more
interesting, the pit is filled with human burials as well. Some are clearly buried
with care, others merely thrown in (the full analysis has not begun yet). I
have a feeling that this deposit is quite unique; but please proof me wrong!
For the moment I am after
Late Bronze Age horse burials only. In this respect the publication by Hanns Hermann Müller (1993) “Horse
skeletons of the Bronze Age in central
Thanks very much in advance!
Jessica Grimm
P.S. The analysis of the
Springhead bones is finished. When the site is officially published, I will let
you all know.