{"id":258,"date":"2011-06-23T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/the-big-dig\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:47:46","slug":"day-13-whats-the-story-behind-the-cow-and-horse-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/2011\/06\/23\/day-13-whats-the-story-behind-the-cow-and-horse-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Dig – Day 13: What\u2019s the story behind the cow and horse deposits?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most intriguing development on site is the identification of numerous examples of cow and horse bones placed together. An example that was discussed previously was of a cow skull buried with a horse mandible. Similar deposits are being found all across the site. This phenomenon was addressed in detail by Miles Russell in his weekly site brief this morning. In area \u2018A\u2019, several limbs and skull of a cow are being excavated with horse remains associated, and in one instance a cow scapular found lying directly on top of articulated horse vertebrae was \u00a0incorporated during the filling in of the \u2018banjo\u2019 enclosure ditch near its entrance when it went out of use.<\/p>\n

Miles Russell confirmed to us that the date and interpretation of human activities at this site is being \u2018tightened up\u2019 but further datable finds, which will hopefully be discovered from the primary silts of the \u2018banjo\u2019 ditch to be certain. Current evidence is suggesting a date of occupation to 400-200BC. It is still unknown whether some the external pits to the \u2018banjo\u2019 ditch were in use before or after the occupation of the \u2018banjo\u2019 enclosure itself.<\/p>\n

Trench \u2018D\u2019 is still being excavated to define the Roman building feature. However, some are extending outside the trench –\u00a0could this mean another season at Winterbourne Kingston?<\/p>\n

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Day 13: The site briefing looking over the 'banjo' entrance ditch, then by a terraced building platform that shows evidence of late or post-Roman building structures, structured depositions of bone in a pit, perforated pottery, and an iron tine. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most intriguing development on site is the identification of numerous examples of cow and horse bones placed together. An example that was discussed previously was of a cow skull buried with a horse mandible. Similar deposits are being found all across the site. This phenomenon was addressed in detail by Miles Russell in his… Read more » about The Big Dig – Day 13: What\u2019s the story behind the cow and horse deposits?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-diary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/big-dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}