ANIMAL BONES FROM DODDER HILL, A ROMAN FORT NEAR DROITWICH (HEREFORD AND WORCESTER), EXCAVATED IN 1977.
Author(s): Simon Davis
A small collection of bones from the Roman fort of Dodder Hill, dated to c. 55-66 AD, includes the following animals: cattle (61%), sheep/goat (32%, probably all sheep), pig (4%), and the following in small quantities: hare, equid, canid, bird (probably chicken) and fish (probably salmon). The cattle are mainly foot bones and teeth (heads and feet), which may derive from butchery waste. Most of the cattle were probably female and most were adult when slaughtered. They were possibly retired dairy cows. The sheep were predominantly juveniles. The Dodder Hill cattle, like others from Roman sites in sothern England were small. Damage inflicted in antiquity upon the condyles of a cattle metacarpal is similar to that observed on seventeenth century AD cattle metapodials from Dorchester, Dorset, but its cause and significance are not understood.
- Report Number:
- 140/1988
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 4
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains Bird Bone Fish Bone