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Thank you for the replies and suggestions. I think the reason I thought possibly horse is that the undulating side sort of resembles the frontal bone of a horse... Horse is present on the site but not in any significant numbers. Horse is typically common on most Irish sites though infrequent. However, if it is horse I would have thought i would have come across the bone before and that it would therefore be familiar which it is not. The site is on the coast so a marine mammal is possible. There are two of these bones in the assemblage - the second one is a smaller fragment but obviously the same element, flat on one side. Otherwise the assemblage, which is relatively small [NISP 477], is dominated by cattle with sheep/goat, pig, horse, dog. Fairly typical for Irish sites though I am just at the identification stage. I have not yet received full contextual details other than that it is Bronze Age. https://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/unid-bone-possible-horse *Dr Emily Murray* *BSc, PhD, ILM L5, PGCHET* *Mobile:* 07811391965 *e-mail:** [log in to unmask]* On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 05:30, pjcross <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Definitely not equid sternal bone. > > The photo of the 'unfused' end looks more like broken with trabecular > surface exposed rather than unfused epiphysis to me... > > What age is the site? what other types of animals are there? > > *Pamela J Cross, MSc, PhD* > Zoo/Bioarchaeology > pajx (at) aol.com > http://bradford.academia.edu/PamCross > > *Life at the Edge* *"liminality...enable[s] evolution and growth ... > Boundaries and edges also characterize the dynamics of landscapes ... > environments..[both intellectual and physical]."* Andrews & Roberts 2012, Liminal > Landscapes > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emily Murray <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Fri, Apr 3, 2020 1:57 am > Subject: [ZOOARCH] Unidentified bone poss. horse? > > Dear ZooArchers > I have an unidentified bone element from a prehistoric site in the east of > Ireland - I have uploaded photos on Zoobook [link below]. In fact I have > two of the same bones from different contexts. This is not a bone I am > familiar with and not something I would consider 'countable' but I > obviously don't want to overlook it. It is perfectly flat on one aspect and > appears to be unfused at one end. It 'feels like' horse to me, possibly > sternum? [i don't have a complete horse skeleton in my ref collection at > home] but I really don't know. Any suggestions would be very welcome. > Thank you, > Emily > > https://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/albums/unid-bone-possible-horse > > > *Dr Emily Murray* > *BSc, PhD, ILM L5, PGCHET* > > *e-mail:** [log in to unmask]* > > ------------------------------ > To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1