Opps, the ref I mentioned is for suckling calves, not attempts to wean them. The muzzle is used to temporarily keep calves from suckling when they're not supposed to, assuming for milk cows? Ciao, K-
 



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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:44:55 +0000




Just curious, so looked on-line, and there's good google book reference from 1830: http://books.google.com/books?id=PQTt9ybzQ50C, page 326 on suckling calves, mentioning a muzzle with iron spikes that prick the cow's udder (and just about anything else you'd like to know about calves). Thanks for sharing, Kimberly
 


> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:14:37 -0400
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> What other artifacts were recovered from this context? Does this
> interpretation fit with the assemblage? 
> 
> Bill Liebeknecht
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark
> Howe
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> http://www.enasco.com/c/farmandranch/Calf+Rearing/Weaners/
> 
> Rachel seems to be right on this.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Howe 
> 
> "Life is how you make it, the future is how you leave your past." 
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> 
> 
> > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:07:24 -0500
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> > I think this could be a calf-weaner (everyone keep your lecherous 
> > sniggers in check). It looks a little bent and out of shape, not 
> > surprising if it is 250 year old, but you would have put the round 
> > part around a calf's nose with the spikes sticking out. It prevents 
> > them from nursing by poking the mother when they try to suckle. These 
> > were not uncommon implements on a farm, and I have come across a few 
> > in my work in Texas. This looks a little different from the ones I 
> > have seen, but I think people devised a wide variety of apparatuses to
> wean calves.
> > 
> > Rachel Feit
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of 
> > King, Julia
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:17 PM
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> > Subject: Artifact ID
> > 
> > Dear HistArchers,
> > 
> > One of our students, Andreas Lutz, is in an Archaeology Practicum 
> > class at St. Mary's College where he along with his colleagues is 
> > cataloging, analyzing, and interpreting materials from the Addison 
> > Plantation site (18PR175; aka Oxon Hill) located in Prince George's 
> > County, MD. He has come across several iron artifacts, and links to 
> > images of one of these objects are posted below. Andreas has shown 
> > these to archaeologists at various institutions around the region, 
> > with some tentative -- but still unsatisfying -- identifications. The 
> > context is cellar fill believed to date to c. 1730s. Later disturbance 
> > is possible but not likely. I told Andreas about the "hundreds of 
> > years of experience" represented by HISTARCH; colleagues, if you have 
> > suggestions for Andreas, we would both be grateful for your assistance!
> Here are the links:
> > 
> > http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifac
> > ts
> > /18PR17503.jpg
> > 
> > http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o289/knifetrader/Addisson%20Artifac
> > ts
> > /18PR17501.jpg
> > 
> > Julie King
> > St. Mary's College of MD
>