MAMMAL AND BIRD BONES FROM EXCAVATIONS AT LITTLE PICKLE, BLETCHINGLEY, SURREY 1988-9 (LP89)
Author(s): J Bourdillon
This report covers a large assemblage of material from a Tudor country house. One context was exceptional for the large numbers of its bones of wild bird, which were from inland waders, ducks, and a range of other species, and for more than 2,000 bones of rabbit. Its other material included much domestic fowl (with many immature bones) and goose, and bones from at least twelve calves. A programme of sieving took advantage of the excellent preservation in this context. From the pattern of distribution over the body it is clear that this material was wastage from the preparation of the carcases, which are likely then to have been cooked whole; little table waste was found, either in this context or elsewhere on the site. There was a certain amount of deer found from this context, but of greater interest were seven whole skeletons of fallow deer from a nearby context of demolition. A further paper by Andrea Bullock discusses the rich remains of fish.
- Report Number:
- 43/1992
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 73
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains Bird Bone
