Anatomy of a ritual: an examination of Romano-British ritual through the lens of the Nescot College shaft in Ewell, Surrey, England. Raw data

How to cite this Dataset

Green, Ellen (2025): Anatomy of a ritual: an examination of Romano-British ritual through the lens of the Nescot College shaft in Ewell, Surrey, England. Raw data. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.001385

Description

Data on the human and animal remains recovered from the Former Nescot College Animal Husbandry Site in Ewell Surrey. The remains date to the late 1st Century CE/ early 2nd Century CE. Data was collected to investigate the ritual processes involved in creating the assemblage. Raw data includes: site code, context number, context type, species, anatomical element, side, zonation (following Knüsel and Outram 2004 and Dobney and Reilly 1988), state of fusion, butchery, gnawing, root etching, abrasion/erosion (following McKinley 2014), post and peri-mortem fractures, pathology, age (where possible), sex (where possible), Oxford histological index (where applicable), articulated/disarticulated (where known), Notes: macroscopic, Notes: microscopic (where applicable), Box number, Associated Bone Group (ABG) number, was a photo taken.

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Green, Ellen