2004   Levine, M.A. The Faunal Remains, in D. Jennings, J. Muir, S. Palmer & A. Smith, Thornhill Farm, Fairford, Gloucestershire: An Iron Age and Roman Settlement in the Upper Thames Valley: 109-132. Thames Valley Landscape Monograph No 23. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology.

Unfortunately the phasing of this site was mostly very uncertain: Iron Age-Roman. It was my view that I certainly had horses and donkeys in the collection and probably mules as well. Mostly the bones were much too damaged to measure, but I wrote detailed descriptions and took a series of photos. Almost all of this information was excluded from the publication. I had been informed that the excluded information would be available online. If that is the case, I have not succeeded in finding it myself. You might be more successful than me in locating it.

If not, I would be willing to make this information available to you, if you are interested.

Regards,
Marsha

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Dear all,

I have a couple of notably small equids from a Roman site on the south coast of England. A small number of donkeys have been found in contemporary sites elsewhere in Britain, so I can't exclude donkey. However, only one longbone is fully fused and complete. Comparisons with a donkey and a pony at the English Heritage reference collection was less helpful, as my bones were right inbetween in size... 

I also have one mandible, where the folds on some teeth are more like horse and some are more like donkey (using the pictures from Cluny Johnstone's Ph.D. as a guide - http://www.york.ac.uk/media/archaeology/documents/researchdegrees/phdthesis/CJohnstonePhDvol2.pdf (p.164-166)).

If anyone here could help me I would be very grateful. I have put photos of the bones up on a flickr set, with measurements where possible.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10435422@N07/sets/72157630620711400/

/Lena
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