At Bertha Park the striking ritual interment of cattle remains in a pit have been dated to between the late 8th century and the 10th centuries AD (Engl 2020, 9). At Lair, Glen Shee, a collection of unburnt cattle bones, comprising several ‘associated bone groups’ represented a calf and three older cattle, were also deposited within a pit. These are perhaps the remains of a foundation celebration (Smith 2019a, 106).
Research Priority
Finding faunal evidence from lowland early medieval sites which are scarce.