Cow skull
A cattle skull collected during a rescue excavation at Queen Street in the centre of historic Exeter. The skull dates from the Roman period and shows evidence for butchery. It is part of a larger faunal bone assemblage which has not been studied, and the site remains an important unpublished archive.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 35/2005/10/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Archaeology
- Material
- bone (animal)
- Common Name
- cow skull
- Simple Name
- archaeological archive
- Period Classification
- Roman (43-410)
