The gallery presents a selection bones from particularly interesting excavations, as well as animal-related ephemera. Please note: all images are copyright of M Holmes
4000 house mouse skeletons from different islands around the world curated at the Grant Museum, London 
Metatarsals from a crow that show signs of infection and wear that may have been caused by a tether 
An assortment of tarsometatarsals from a cock (far left) with a spur, two young males (middle) with spur scars and two hens (right) with no spur 
The bottom mandible and 3rd molar have been worn by the teeth of the upper jaw. Compare it with a normal mandible above. 
The granular medullary bone inside the bone occurs when a hen is laying eggs 
Possibly a talisman or decoration 
Pathological changes typical of a draught animal 
Sheep horn cores and foot bones typical of tawyer’s waste
