[Bonetools] Knucklebone floors

[Serjeantson D.]

Dear Josje,
I do not have a pdf myself and would be very grateful for a copy if someone has one, as it would be useful to have.

I recently saw a very fine example of an (unpublished) knucklebone floor at Uppark, a very elegant National Trust Georgian house in Sussex. Well worth a visit if you are in Britain. It is the floor of an external Game Larder and was not in very good condition when I saw it, but the curator said that they were going to do something about conserving it.

I will forward your email to ZOOARCH, as it is likely that other people know of more examples that have come to light since 1989.

Yours
Dale


Dale Serjeantson
Archaeology
School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/dale.page
Birds and Archaeology: New Research.  International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Special Issue
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.v24.3/issuetoc



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Subject: [Bonetools] Knucklebone floors

Hello everyone,

Does anyone have a pdf of the book "Diet and crafts in towns: the evidence of animal remains from the Roman to the post-medieval periods" by Dale Serjeantson and Tony Waldron (1989)? There are some references in there about so-called "knucklebone floors", a phenomenon we encounter quite often in Hoorn (NL), but seems to be quite rare in the rest of the Netherlands. I have heard about a few in London, though.
If anyone knows more about these knucklebone floors, or has the publication by Serjeantson and Waldron, I would be very grateful!

Thanks in advance,

Josje