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What
did the Saxons eat?
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Hamwic revealed:
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702 individual mammal
bone and 101 birds.
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Sheep/goats:
37.7%
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Cattle: 30%
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Pigs: 27.4%
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Other bones of 13
(domestic cats), five Red Deer, two Roe Deer, five horses, four dogs, five
rodents. (Wood Mouse and Field Vole)
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Most of the birds
wre chicken and goose, rather than wild birds.
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Absent: Black Rat,
Rabbit, Fallow Deer (this one could have changed?).
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Generally, the same
emphasis on domestic animals was found from the Iron Age to the end of
the Saxon period (and probably to the 20th century as well).
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Individually, wild
animals made up less than 0.1% individually and less than 1% collectively
throughout the whole period, from archaeological excavations.
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