Skeleton of an Early-Middle Bronze Age dog with "spondylosis deformans" from the Babraham Road Park and Ride site, Cambridge, U.K.

Abstract

During the excavation of a prehistoric ritual site near Cambridge (Cambridgeshire, U.K.) the skeleton of a fairly large dog dating from the Early-Middle Bronze Age was found in a ditch terminal. This animal is amongst the largest recovered thus far from the period in Britain and displays spinal pathology.