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Boney Bits

Animal bones give us lots of evidence about farming and people’s diet. Not much of an animal was wasted and bones were used right up to Victorian times to make all kinds
of things! Every CAT KIT has a cattle horn core. Some have cattle jaws and others have pig, sheep or goat jaws. So there is something here for everyone!


Time Team Canterbury 2000. Making a lantern from flattened sheaths of horn.	The finished lantern and a cattle horn ‘core’ after the sheath has been removed.	Sheep at Tenterden Fair Spring 2005.


Goat off the internet. Goat and sheep jaw bones are difficult to tell apart.	Pig at Tenterden Fair, 2005. I couldn’t see its jaws!	Grubbing pig at Tenterden Fair, 2005. I don’t know if it found anything!


Roman pig’s head from THE BIG DIG, Canterbury.	Inquisitive cows on the Winchelsea Marshes, East Sussex.


Medieval sheep skulls. The Y shaped lines on the top of the skull (left) shows us these are sheep. A goat skull would have T lines.	Roman pig (left) and cattle (right, date unknown). Cattle have no front teeth in the top jaw.


Roman bone die.	Roman bone button or toggle. Can you identify the animal face?


Roman bone spoon.	Anglo-Saxon bone comb.	Medieval bone pricker for marking out the writing lines on parchment.


Bone ‘waste’ (left overs) from making beads. It is probably medieval.	This is a human bottom jaw. Look how the middle teeth have been worn into a semi-circle. How did this happen? Look for a clue in the CAT KIT!


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