Hi,
The R-B assemblage from Shiptonthorpe (Yorks) has animal burials, including
foetuses, some of which are associated with human remains. The excavation
volume is in press, but I can provide a copy of the animal bone report to
anyone who is interested.
Ingrid
Quoting Tessa Pirnie <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi,
>
> Best I can come up with is a pit fill associated with a Romano-British
> cremation
> burial, containing the near-complete skeletons of a domestic fowl and a
> foetal/neonate piglet. (Hard to imagine pig born of hen, though.)
>
> From:
> Gebbels A. 1978. Animal bone. 116. In: P J Drury. Excavations at Little
> Waltham
> 1970-1971. CBA Research Report 26. Chelmsford Excavation Committee report No.
> 1.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tessa
>
>
> Quoting Info <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have an example of a foetal calf buried with an adult horse skeleton
> > in a feature of late Iron Age/Early Roman date (it has been C14 dated).
> > I have searched the zooarch archives for similar examples of
> > associations between foetal and mature animals of different species and
> > came up with an email by S. Knight in July 2003. But I couldn't find
> > any replies to her query in the archives. I was wondering if anyone knew
> > of any similar examples or could direct me towards some useful
> > references.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Carina Phillips
>
>
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> Tessa Pirnie
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> Department of Archaeology
> University of Sheffield
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>
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