[Bonetools] Roman bone pin work waste

[Pajx]

Hi Stephen


I would be very interested in any data on bone type from your sites. I'm trying to get an idea about how much horse has been ID'd in these assemblages. Both actual bone types (MT/MC other) and numbers (any kind of data which might give an idea of MNI- number of horses represented) and how this compares with other animals - seemingly the primary bone is cattle/bos?


cheers
Pam


Pamela J Cross
PhD researcher, Bioarchaeology
AGES, University of Bradford
BD7 1DP UK
p.j.cross (at) student.bradford.ac.uk
pajx (at) aol.com
http://www.barc.brad.ac.uk/resstud_Cross.php
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-----Original Message-----
From: sjgreep <sjgreep at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, May 9, 2014 9:56 am
Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Roman bone pin work waste


Hi Lena,

I,ve a lot of information on British pin manufacturing sites, but from your post 
it looks like you have a great assemblage. As Ian Ridler notes I published a 
workshop from Canterbury a while ago (a mid fourth century deposit), but I have 
a lot more data. 

Most British evidence of pin manufacture comes from town sites, but there is 
some from rural sites - e.g. From the villa at Piddington) but most of this are 
isolated examples rather than complete workshop sequences.

If you'd like some more information and help let me know and I will help as much 
as I can. I've records of around 10,000 British bone hair pins and am about to 
embark on a project looking in more detail at some assemblages, so I would be 
very interested in hearing more about your finds in any case.

I see others have sent you some useful publications which are all good. We don't 
(yet) have a comparable catalogue from a uk site, but my PhD (alas unpublished) 
has a very large body of material.

Let me know if you'd like more detailed help - and I would be very interested 
from a personal point of view in any case

Stephen Greep


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> On 9 May 2014, at 13:44, Lena Strid <lena.strid at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a very large Roman deposit of chopped up long bones from making bone 
pins. The bones are mostly cattle and horse metapodials, radius and tibia. The 
deposit is sampled entirely, sieved down to 4mm, and contains everything from 
large proximal and distal ends down to broken-off hexagonal offcuts. It is a 
rural site, but very close to a Roman town in southern England. 
> 
> Would any of you have any tips on the most useful way to record the deposit 
and/or a good reference material. I already know of Vine St (Leicester) and 
Sagalassos (Turkey). There is unlikely to be time for me to do a in-depth 
analysis of the bone working procedure, but the assemblage would be retained for 
future research.
> 
> With thanks,
> Lena
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