Record number JS194         Number of items 1         Related record JS190, JS191, JS191a, JS191b, JS194, JS226         Identification           Simple name fossil         Full name tibia of a sub-adult deer         Other name giant deer         Named collection Goss' Gap deer         Classified name Mammalia & Artiodactyla & Cervidae             System Linnaean             Status               Currency               Authority3           Authority           Note           Brief description Fossil, distal end of a tibia from a sub-adult deer; right tibia that articulates with astagalus JS226 and proximal end JS195; part of an articulating group of bones from the right hind leg; in situ find from the early Middle Pleistocene deposits, Cromer Forest-bed Formation (Runton Member, West Runton Freshwater Bed) of Goss' Gap, washed out under water pipe, West Runton, Norfolk, UK; with bone surface modification         Description           Form tibia (connects to JS226) & BSM         Field collection           Place & & West Runton & Norfolk & UK             Site name Goss' Gap                 Note4 washed out under water pipe             Locality number               Coordinates geocoordinates : 52°56'25.56"N, 1°15'20.56"E             Relative position               Stratigraphy rock : Cromer Forest-bed Formation & Runton Member & West Runton Freshwater Bed & bed d             Stratigraphy stage : Cromerian             Stratigraphy age : Pleistocene & early Middle Pleistocene             Stratigraphy                   Note4               Note3           Method in situ find         Person collector : Stewart, Jonathan         Date 2018         Collection number           Permanent location           Recorder MRW : 19.7.2019         Description           Completeness incomplete (distal end missing, modern break)         Condition good (bone surface modification)         Part:dimen:reading : width at proximal end : 60 mm         Part:dimen:reading : length : 271 mm         Part:aspect:desc           Conservation           Method           Person conservator :         Date           Note           Reference number           Photography           Method           Person photographer :         Date           Photograph number IMG_20191108_105232.jpg         Photograph number IMG_20191108_105256.jpg       JS194_1.jpg             Type3 digitised image       JS194_2.jpg             Type3 digitised image       leg.jpg             Type3 digitised image             Note3 Complete hind leg         Process           Type           Method           Person :         Date           Note           Reference number           Documentation group           Link jswestrunton.html         Documentation group           Link           Class           Reference Beijeersbergen, L.M. Takken & Hufthammer, A.K. : 2012 : Ager determination of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) based on postcranial elements, in D.C.M. Raemaekers, E. Esser et al (eds): A bouget of archaeozoological studies. Essays in honour of Wietske Prummel. : GAS : 21 : p.11-20         Reference number           Notes The phalanges are completelty fused; the proximal end of the metatarsal is fused while the distal end shows very faint signs of being not quite fused (maybe it is more than 95 percent fused); the tibia distal end is more or less fused (proximal end is unfused) while the femur is unfused at both ends. If this species compares well with reindeer then this puts the age at death between 27 and 30 months.         Admin category importance : 1         Note part of articulated group; right hind leg of a large deer