Cattle Foot Bones Excavated in 1982 from a Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Pit in Church Street, Dorchester, Dorset

Author(s): Simon Davis

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A late seventeenth/ mid eighteenth century pit in Dorchester, Dorset, contained complete metapodials andphalanges from some 20 cattle most were probablyfemales or oxen. The assemblage is tentatively interpreted as the waste from a cow-hide tannery, in which the hides were transported with feet still attached.

Report Number:

222/1987

Series:

AML Reports (New Series)

Pages:

11

Keywords:

Animal Bone Animal Remains