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X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants

Cx34: Defined as ritual pit, it contained 2 unidentified bone splinters, 3 cattle bones (gnawed left astragalus, right upper molar, gnawed and very broken scapula), and a slashed sheep or goat mandible fragment.

Cxi 10: This pit seems to have been interesting also from the archaeological point of view, but there is no information about being any connection though between the worked horse bone and the other findings. It is a right tibia fragment of Equus caballus, which has been cut at the medio-distal part, and a smooth, regular hole was drilled in the middle of the distal part, along the longitudinal center of the bone. It may be a grip, a haft/hilt.

Pic. 6: worked horse tibia from pit Cxi 10, uncertain function

Cxl30: The archaeological description mentioned a horse skull, but it was actually a cattle. There were interesting things (pottery, coal, human bones and animal bones) mentioned in the description made on the field, but no afterwards information was communicated about the possibility of a ritual pit. Besides some fragments and teeth of swine, Ovicaprinae and one horse tooth, all the other animal bones are coming from Bos taurus, at least 3 different individuals, among which partial or complete limbs (right part from pelvis to phalanx, left part from tibia to phalanx, left part from humerus to tarsi), and remains of at least 2 different skulls. This is an unusual composition, but it seems that it had nothing outstanding from the archaeological point of view.

Cxi 53: The pit provided the fragments and splinters of a horse skull (details at the description of the species) and a dog skull. Interesting appearance together, but it seems that it is only accidental.

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