ARCHAEOLOGICAL BONE SAMPLES RECOVERED BY SIEVING: 46-54 FISHERGATE, YORK, AS A CASE STUDY
Author(s): T P O'Connor
The report describes the sieving procedures employed in order to recover small bone fragments from Anglian and medieval deposits at 46-54 Fishergate, York. A preliminary analysis of data obtained from samples sieved to 12mm shows that this mesh size is only suitable for the recovery of the larger birds and mammals, but that even such coarse sieving is an improvement on collection by hand. Certain aspects of the sampling procedure are explicitly criticised, and improvements to sieving and sorting procedures are proposed.
- Report Number:
- 190/1988
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains Bird Bone
