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(PDF) Dieren uit Arkum: veeteelt op veen en klei-op-veen

Dieren uit Arkum: veeteelt op veen en klei-op-veen

2019, Opgraving Tjerkwerd-Arkum. Ontginning en hergebruik van een later verdwenen (klei-op-)veenlandschap-

The inhabitants of the Arkum terp settlement during the late Iron Age, Early and Middle Roman times, were self-sufficient in terms of meat supply and - insofar as they used milk - milk supply. The cattle probably only supplied milk for human consumption in Roman times. In Roman times, the residents may have traded wool. Three stable C and N isotope provisions show that cattle and sheep were grazed in the vicinity of the settlement, initially on the peat and later on clay-on-peat. Mammals and birds werd hardly hunted. There was also little fishing. A wild boar, a duck, a raven, eel and the brackish goby have been demonstrated. The last species of fish had never before been found in the northern Netherlands. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that not much research has yet been conducted in the Frisian settlements in the peat. A perforated frontale of a neonatal cow is a very remarkable finding.