Anatomy of a ritual: an examination of Romano-British ritual through the lens of the Nescot College shaft in Ewell, Surrey, England. Raw data

Data on the human and animal remains recovered from the Former Nescot College Animal Husbandry Site in Ewell Surrey. The remains date to the late 1st Century CE/ early 2nd Century CE. Data was collected to investigate the ritual processes involved in creating the assemblage. Raw data includes: site code, context number, context type, species, anatomical element, side, zonation (following Knüsel and Outram 2004 and Dobney and Reilly 1988), state of fusion, butchery, gnawing, root etching, abrasion/erosion (following McKinley 2014), post and peri-mortem fractures, pathology, age (where possible), sex (where possible), Oxford histological index (where applicable), articulated/disarticulated (where known), Notes: macroscopic, Notes: microscopic (where applicable), Box number, Associated Bone Group (ABG) number, was a photo taken.