Dear Frazer
I believe polecats/ferrets were found at these sites as well,
although generally only in very small quantities:
Albarella, U. & Davis, S.J.M. (1994) The Saxon and Medieval Animal
Bones Excavated 1985–89 from West Cotton, Northamptonshire. Ancient
Monuments Laboratory Report 17/94. Historic Buildings and Monuments
Commission for England, London, UK.
Baker, N. (2002) Shrewsbury abbey: studies in the archaeology and
history of an urban abbey. Shropshire Archaeologica and His orical
Society Monog aph S ries, 2, 145–158.
Bond, J.M. & O’Connor, T.P. (1999) Bones from Medieval Deposits at
16–22 Coppergate and Other Sites in York. The Archaeology of York No.
15/5. Council for British Archaeology, York, UK.
Connell, B., Davis, S.J.M. & Locker, A. (1997) Animal Bones from
Camber Castle, East Sussex, 1963–83. Ancient Monuments Laboratory
Report 107/97. Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for
England, London, UK.
Evans, C. & Serjeantson, D. (1988) The backwater economy of a
fen-edge community in the Iron Age: the Upper Delphs, Haddenham.
Antiquity, 62, 360–370.
O’Connor, T.P. (1989) Bones from Anglo-Scandinavian Levels a 16–22
Coppergate. The Archaeology of York, No. 15/3. Council for British
Archaeology, London, UK.
Thomas, C., Sloane, B. & Phillpotts, C. (1997) Excava ions a the
Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital, London. MoLAS Monograph 1.
Museum of London Archaeology Service, London, UK.
Wordsworth, J. (1982) Excavation of the settlement at 13-21 Castle
Street, Inverness, 1979. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland, 112, 322-91.
Hope that's a help.
Best wishes
Eva Fairnell
PhD student
University of York
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