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[log in to unmask]" type="cite">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]>
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 18th 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
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