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These links are now available in BoneCommons. Because BoneCommons does not require users to log in, posts become "live" once reviewed by the administrator. The administrator is in California, so posts made in the daytime in the UK sometimes have to wait a few hours until morning time here! Thanks! Sarah On 6/9/2011 1:38 AM, Arjan wrote: > Hey Jonny, > > I found a similar skull in a dwelling mound site from the Netherlands > during my master thesis research. My thesis can be found here: > http://irs.ub.rug.nl/dbi/4d21b9f585a76. I've uploaded three > publications to bonecommons that I found very useful, they are not yet > added by the admins. I've documented a number of skulls in the > collection of the University of Groningen which also showed signs of > rudimentary horn cores. A second example I know of is found in Tiel > Passewaai, you can contact Maaike Groot for further information about > that skull. > > http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1769 > http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1769 > http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/show/1769 > > best, > > Arjan > > > > 2011/6/8 Jonny Geber <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > > Dear all, > > I’m scratching my head over a polled cattle skull recovered from > an early-middle Anglo-Saxon (AD 410-850) settlement site in > Gloucestershire, England. It is a well preserved cranium, with > only small ruminant traces of where the horn cores should have > been… Polled cattle are known from the Iron Age in Britain, but > probably first intentionally exploited in the late 18^th century > (if I’m not completely wrong)… I can’t find much reference to them > in the literature, so it is difficult to place this particular > find in context. > > Would anyone know if somebody has looked at these > (zooarchaeologically) in more detail before? > > Regards, > > /Jonny Geber > > **Jonny Geber**MA, MA > > Environmental Officer (Osteologist) > > Direct Line 01285 772618 > > ** > > *Cotswold Archaeology* > > Building 11 > > Kemble Enterprise Park > > Cirencester > > Gloucestershire > > GL7 6BQ > > T: 01285 771022 > > F: 01285 771033 > > E: [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>_ > > W: _www.cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk > <http://www.cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/>_ > > © Cotswold Archaeology. A Limited Company Registered in England > No.2362531. Registered Charity No. 1001653 > > /Privilege and Confidentiality Notice./ > > This e-mail and any attachments to it are intended only for sole > use of the intended recipient. They may contain privileged and/or > confidential information. If you have received this transmission > in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete any > digital copies and destroy any paper copies. > > Thank you. > > This message has been scanned by MailController > <http://portal2.mailcontroller.co.uk/>. > > -- Sarah Whitcher Kansa Executive Director, AAI Editor, Open Context www.alexandriaarchive.org www.opencontext.org Tel: 1-415-425-7381 Fax: 1-866-505-8626