Postcards from London

Desta vez, directamente do subsolo de Londres, uma fossa pós-medieval construída com cornos de vários animais. Podia ser local de um qualquer ritual (e os arqueólogos adoram locais rituais), com interpretações à canal História, mas é apenas um buraco onde colocavam os detritos. Os cornos foram usados porque os outros materiais de construção eram escassos sendo estes, em particular, rejeitados da manufactura de peças requintadas por apresentarem defeito.

'The pit consists of a cylindrical void with a perimeter structure built with animal horns as a cheaper alternative to bricks. The horn cores were inter-woven to offer a degree stability to the structure, and the pit was then used for the disposal of domestic waste. The horn cores were derived from long horn cattle and represent the residual waste from t...he local ‘horning’ industry. ‘Horners’ were skilled craftsmen who worked horn from cattle to create a range of artifacts from drinking vessels to buttons, and from panels in lanterns (when sliced very thinly) to tool handles'. Information and image via http://hearingshofar.blogspot.ie/2011/07/horn-core-pits-in-ancient-london.html)