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 Europe” is very helpful. However, as it was written back in 1993, new discoveries might be out there that I don’t know of. So can I please ask anyone working on or knowing of a Late Bronze Age horse burial in North-western Europe to kindly share this information with me?

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.