Description

Summary: Animal bone group B39 from Paul Ashbee's 1964 excavation of the Beckhampton Road Longbarrow

Research results

In her PhD with the university of Leicester, Banfield (2018) re-examined the osseous assemblages Beckhampton Road, West Kennet and Cold Kitchen Hill long barrows, as well as material held by other institutions from a number of Neolithic long barrows in the Avebury and Salisbury plain areas. She takes a post-humanist approach to these materials, seeking to re-analyse and re-emphasise faunal assemblages which garnered little attention from the original excavators and in initial post-excavation analyses and publication. In doing so, she illustrates both the potential importance of human-animal relations to the communities who contructed these monuments, but also the significant meaning these remains may have conveyed.

Various animal bones (B39) excavated by Ashbee during his 1964 excavation of Beckhampton Road Longbarrow (Bishops Cannings G76). The bone shows signs of butchery.