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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