Dear Deb,
here is a related paper:
Cram, Leslie (1984): Footprints in the Sands of Time. in: Grigson, Caroline & Clutton-Brock, Juliet (eds.): Animals and Archaeology: 4. Husbandry in Europe, British Archaeological Reports International Series 227, 229-235, Oxford
I remember that Dirk Schmitz from the Museum in Xanten has written an extensive report on prints on Roman tiles and bricks including footprints but I could not find the exact reference. It may be this one (which I found on the web):
Schmitz, Dirk: ¬Die gestempelten Ziegel des römischen Köln
Also Will Higgs footprints website may be of use:
http://www.skullsite.co.uk/prints/
Best
Christian
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Betreff: Re: [ZOOARCH] Dog Tracks and Pawprint-to-Weight Ratios
Gesendet: Fr, 26. Aug 2011
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> Dear All: I'm attempting to write up the collection of dog tracks
> preserved on Roman tiles from Vindolanda. I've got good measurements on a
> population of about 100 individual prints. Sometime in the next two weeks
> I'm going to make the journey up to U.C. Davis' wonderful Shields Library
> to mine it for relevant literature, but thought I would ask here first for
> helpful direction.
>
> Particularly: Does anyone know of published literature that relates the
> width of a dog's footprint to the weight of the dog? And any other items
> on the general subject of dog tracks. Thank you all in advance -- it's
> been a LOOOONG time since my "lebensspuren" seminars with Adolf Seilacher,
> and anyway, that was mostly about worms. Cheers -- Deb Bennett
>
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