THE SAXON, MEDIEVAL AND POST MEDIEVAL FISH BONES FROM EXCAVATIONS AT CASTLE MALL, NORWICH, NORFOLK
Author(s): A Locker
Over 14,000 fish bones were identified to species or family level from Castle Mall and are summarised in Table 1. The assemblage was dominated by marine fish, particularly herring as expected in such close proximity to the East Anglian herring fisheries centred on Great Yarmouth. Cod and related species were also important along with flatfishes and rays. The species composition was remarkably consistent through all periods and no differences in lateral distribution were observed in contrast with the animal bones where some fluctuations between species occurred (Albarella et al 1997). Consumption of freshwater species seems to have been relatively unimportant, except for eel.
- Report Number:
- 85/1997
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 22
- Keywords:
- Animal Bone Animal Remains Fish Bone
