Aurochs tooth, Bos primigenius, found at Morton Mesolithic Settlement, Fife

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Aurochs tooth
Bos primigenius

Field collection: Mesolithic Morton excavation, Tayport, Fife
Collected by Dr John Coles

Donated by Mr GC Sim
Museum number 1976-889

Cattle bones from the midden at Morton showed a wide variation in the size of animals. This upper first molar is from an unusually small adult. It may represent an abnormal individual or a genetically distinct species or subspecies of aurochs.

Aurochs tooth, Bos primigenius, found at Morton Mesolithic Settlement, Fife
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