“Unraveling Ancient Rituals: What Did 140 Sacrificed Dogs Reveal About Roman Beliefs in England?”
Pre-Construct ArchaeologyThe ancient quarry shaft where the bones were discovered.
It is also unclear why the site lost its religious significance over time. What started as a site for ritual sacrifice eventually became a deposit for more mundane, discarded objects, and by the early second century C.E., all deposits ceased entirely.
“Despite the fact that dogs are found on the majority of Romano-British sites, very little can be said about the Nescot assemblage in terms of how it fits into the larger picture of the province because of the absence of adequate comparative data,” Greene concludes. “This problem is not limited to the dogs of Roman Britain however, and the standardization of pathological recording and reporting in zooarchaeology can only serve to strengthen the field as a whole.”
After reading about this study of ancient Roman dog sacrifices, read about some of history’s most famous dogs. Then, read about the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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