ID,Subject,Comments
12,"Fragments","Most fragments which are part of the cortex only (so that the full thickness cannot be determined), small areas of bone covered with a thin layer of cancellous bone, which are probably one side of a rib fragment, and really tiny scraps are put in an envelope marked 'bone chips', and are not counted.  Other fragments which can be placed in either med mam or lg mam etc are counted.  They are first examined to see if they can be fitted to either each other, or bones in the identifiable piles."
13,"Deer teeth recording and age","These are recorded using Payne's sheep wear for dP4, C, M1, M2, M3. Grant's Cattle wear stages are used for other teeth, although P4 is sometimes at stage 7A Payne rather than a Grant Stage. An age estimate was made for deer mandibles using Lowe (1967) for red deer, Chaplin and White (1969) and Chapman and Chapman (1975) for fallow deer, and Aitken (1975), Lowe (1967) and Chaplin(1971) for roe deer."
15,"Cattle mandibles CEJ","CEJb, CEJb, RAa - see AnBoneStafford Method.doc. This information is now in the field CEJ."
22,"Rib length.","End Jan 02. Ribs & fragment recording: rib head/neck entered in >50% field (usually are), rib shaft in <50% (ditto). They are also sorted into size categories, 2-4cm, 4-8cm, 8-16cm etc to give a better idea of sample, as are the frags. Measured from ID 4013 to 8229 (Sept 02) when time constraints stopped the practice."
23,"Zones bird skull","For bird skull zones, see diagram."
40,"Bird sizes","02/12/02. added vlg, lg, med, small and v.small bird. Weight is a rough estimate based on figures in Dunning (1993) CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses. See published report and Table Bird Size Groups, in AnBone Stafford Method (Word file). Bird bones which cannot be identified to species are put into the groups unidentified vlg, lg, med, small, vsmall (see above). Most foot phalanges are in these groups, with vetebrae and ribs, but not all wing phalanges, which can often be identified."
41,"Measurement Bd","07/05/03 Note that Bd for cattle, caprines, and deer = BatF (Davis 1992, Fig.2). BFd is width of dist articulation."
42,"1 Site","Stafford Castle. Published (from a first draft report of 2004). Sadler, P, Jones, G G, Hamilton-Dyer, S and de Rouffingnac, C  2007  The environmental evidence, in Stafford Castle: Survey, Excavations and Research 1978-98, Vol. 2 - The Excavations, Ed. I. Soden. Stafford Borough Council, 161-188."
43,"2 Recorded, when and by whom.","Aug 2001 - Apr 2003, with additional work to Nov 03. Recorded by Peta Sadler; with database work, discussion, some small mammal identifications by Gillian Jones."
44,"5 ADS and tDAR(TAG)","April 2010. Sent to ADS as part of the TAG Project: Transatlantic Archaeology Gateway, Faunal Data Integration. Work preparing the database for putting onto the Archaeology Data Service, done April 2011."
45,"4 The 'AnBone' database","?AnBone? was developed initially in 1998/2000  by Anthony Beck at Oxford Archaeology, following discussion with GGJ and Sarah Crump, using aspects of Levitan?s ?Bonerec?, Dobney and Jaques?s Paradox input system and Halstead?s SPSS database.  It?s been much changed since then by GGJ.  See Word file 'AnBone info.doc'."
46,"6 Use Form","Use the form to read these."
47,"Zones 789","zones 789 used for horn core, antler, hyoid, carpals, tarsals (except calcaneum and astragalus) fibula and patella. Also bird quadrate, mt1, ph, vert, carpal, pigostyle, and amphibian bones. Shows either proximal, shaft and distal area of bone or is used (with patella for example) to show if damaged."
49,"Antler, horncore","Horncores and antler use their own element name unless attached to a piece of skull (frontal, zone 4), when they become skull zones (789)."
50,"Cattle mandibles CEJ field","Cement-enamel-junction position, now its own field showing all three molars. See Table CEJ Definitions."
51,"3 Identification and Recording","See Word file AnBoneStafford Method"
53,"Zones mammal skull","For mammal skull zones, see diagram."
54,"Cattle scapula 2909","So many incomplete scapulae and fragments in this context that only zone 8 with the end of the spine was included so that they could be used to count the number of animals represented."
55,"Manuscript Notes","There are sketches of some bones on A5 paper, if 'Yes' for Field Manuscript Notes."