Marta, Livius et al.: The Late Bronze Age Settlement of Nyíregyháza-Oros „Úr Csere” (Satu Mare, 2010)

X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants

Cx268: Ritual pit containing an undefined cranial fragment, a severely broken femur fragment coming from a large mammal, and a partial antler of a red deer placed on the bottom of the pit. Basal size of the antler is 55.3x45.2 mm, measured right at the pedicle (1). Diameter at the main division (2): 49x31.5 mm. Diameter of the beam: 26.7x28.2 mm (5). Diameter of the brow tine at base: 22x18 mm (3), at middle part: 16.5x16 mm (4). Diameter at the division of bay antler: 38x27 mm (6). Measurement points shown on picture:

This is a shed antler, so no animal was killed by getting it. It was collected by people in the forest nearby, probably at the end of winter/beginning of springtime. This also determines the time of the ritual executed in this pit.

Pic. 7: Red deer antler from ritual pit no. 268 with measurement points

Cx286: Ritual pit with mixed bone content. Besides the unidentified fragments the following bones were found here: tibia of a hare, gnawed metatarsus of a sheep, cut metatarsus of a goat, an almost complete mandible of a goat, a burnt ilium fragment of a sheep or goat, a cut ulna of a pig, and 4 cattle bones (horn fragment, cut pelvis fragment). The other two are interesting: a cranium fragment wearing a broken horn is slashed - this may indicate that people were eating cattle-brain, or they may have slashed it because of some other ritual act. The other cattle bone is a mandible, which

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