We have come across a probable dog calcaneus from a Late Bronze Age deposit from a site near Oxford, which appears to be from a very large individual. The measurements for the bone are GB=22.0mm, GL=61.1mm, and have looked on the ADS catalogue for comparisons but there are no examples on the database from this period. On this catalogue the largest GL measurement from any period is 51.2mm from an early Medieval deposit. Has anyone else come across such a large dog from the late Bronze Age, or should we be identifying it as wolf.
Thanks in advance
Emma-Jayne
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Emma-Jayne Evans, Oxford Archaeology
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