Dierenbotten uit een voorde in de Hunze bij Plankensloot (Dr.)

Samenvatting

Animal bones from a ford through the river Hunze near Plankensloot (Dr.). A hundred and fourteen animal bones from a late medieval ford represent the domestic mammal and bird species dog, horse, pig, cattle, sheep/goat and chicken, the wild mammal species beaver, hare and wild boar, the wild bird species white stork and mallard, and the fish species bream. Cut marks on cattle, horse, pig, sheep/goat and wild boar bones suggest that most of the bones are domestic waste. The beaver, white stork, mallard and bream bones probably will originate from animals that died a natural death in the river Hunze. The small size of the cattle, horses, pigs and sheep/goat accords with the presumably late medieval date of the bones.