Dear All,
This correspondence on may have confirmed a suspicion I have had for some
time about bird butchery.
The main bird species frpm the Neolithic levels at Tofts Ness, Sanday,
Orkney are gulls, Greater Black-backed, and Herring and /or Lesser
Black-backed. Some of the otherwise undamaged radii and ulnae have slight
damage at each end. It was not post-depostional, and could well be where
the ligament was snapped to separate the bones. And - at the other end of
the country and rather later in time - Late Medieval passerine bones from
St Gregory's Priory, Canterbury have similar damage.
Dale
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