Hunting Aurochs and the Making of a Significant Place
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 17/05/2019

At Langley’s Lane, Bath and North-East Somerset, an aurochs was killed and primary butchery activities carried out at an active tufa spring. Some of the bones and butchery tools were deposited into the spring waters. Shallow pits were dug at the wetland edge and flint knapped. Later, as the spring became less active,  faunal remains  and lithics were again placed in its  waters.  Eventually, the  spring dried up, its 
9location now marked by a low white mound of tufa. Visits continued and a large pit was dug at the edge of this mound, a small stone platform laid, flint knapped and aurochs consumed.A relational framework incorporating animals, humans, substances and elements will be used to explore why this place retained such an enduring significance that extended over two thousand years.

Caroline Rosen (University  of  Worcester) and Jodie Lewis (University  of Worcester)

TAG Deva 2018
Session: Relational Approaches to Past Hunter-Gatherer Worlds