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Dear All,
 
I have a site in Cambridgeshire (Partney By-Pass) with cattle and equid remains found in a palaeochannel adjacent to an Iron Age shrine. The equid fragments include two partial crania and a small mandible containing small teeth from the same context. This is donkey sized. However, although the lingual sulcus is generally "V" shaped (particularly in P3 & M3) and there are ptychostylids on P3, M1 & M2, there is penetration between the metaflexid and entoflexid in M1-3. The teeth are quite worn so this specimen is probably a small pony. More significantly, a radiocarbon date obtained from the layer directly above this has produced a date of 2870 to 2470 BC (to 2 standard deviations). Material from the layer containing the bones is scheduled to be radiocarbon dated in November. In the meantime is anyone aware of any post-Glacial and pre-Beaker horse remains in the U.K.?
 
Best wishes,
 
Ian L. Baxter