ANIMAL BONES FROM CATTERICK BRIDGE (CEU 240), A ROMAN TOWN (NORTH YORKSHIRE) EXCAVATED IN 1983.
Author(s): B Meddens
This small collection of Roman animal bones from Catterick comes from two phases dating late 2nd-3rd centuries A.D. and late 3rd-4th centuries A.D.. The nature of the animal bone in these phases does not appear to differ greatly, indicating that there were no important changes in the exploitation of animals through the time period represented by this collection. The majority of bones come from cattle, sheep/goat, and pig and probably derive from domestic waste. Horse bones also occur in significant numbers, but whether they were eaten or not is not clear. Most of the cattle were adult, but no very old cattle were found. The sheep were mainly adult when slaughtered, but a fairly wide range of ages were represented. The pigs were slaughtered at under 2 years. All parts of the body were found indicating that the animals were probably butchered on site, although there is some little evidence of bias towards primary butcherey waste in the cattle bones. The main benefit of a collection of this type is its addition to the corpus of animal bone data from Roman Britain and particularly Roman Yorkshire.
- Report Number:
- 31/1990
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 32
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains
