Dear Alessio, Here are some barn owl references from Roman Britain. Cheers, Umberto Bate D M A. 1971. Report on bird remains. 101-2. In:O'Neil H. The Roman villa at Park Street near St. Albans, Herts.HASPRINT 2. Hertfordshire Archaeol. Soc. Rielly K. 1986. Bird bones. 169-70. In:Rook T. The Roman villa site at Dicket Mead, Lockleys, Welwyn.Hertfordshire Archaeol. 9. 79-175. Locker A. 1987. The animal bones. 108-115. In:Neal D S. Excavations at Magiovinium, Bucks. 1978-80.Rec. Buckinghamshire 29. 1-124. Stallibrass S. Animal bones. 587-612 and Pl. XXXI. In:Jackson R P J and Potter T W (eds). Excavations at Stonea, Cambridgeshire 1980-5.London: British Museum. Armour-Chelu M. 1997. Appendix 8: faunal remains. 350-64. In:Barker P., White R., Pretty K., Bird H. and Corbishley M. The Baths Basilica Wroxeter. Excavations 1966-90.London: English Heritage Archaeological Report 8 -- Umberto Albarella Department of Archaeology University of Sheffield Northgate House West Street Sheffield S1 4ET United Kingdom Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943 Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563 http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html "No co-operation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists" Albert Einstein