On 6/6/2014 12:32 PM, Bill Liebeknecht wrote:
> Thanks, It's all helpful!
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> Walter
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> Many of these things were fed to the pigs.
> If they were nearby, Gypsies ate "dead meat"
> Farmers here that I asked - in the 1900s, mind - they buried them.
> My uncle's family in Montana dumped carcasses in a ravine and let the
> scavengers have them.
> A local butcher told me he butchered them for local families who ate them.
> None of this is early 18th century though, just what I've gotten by asking.
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>> Questions:
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>> 1.       If you lived in a rural early 18th century setting and your horse
>> died, what would you do with the body?
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>> 2.       The smell would become putrid rather quickly and let's face it
>> horses weigh a ton, so would you salvage what you could, hide, hooves .???
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>> 3.       Then what, would you quarter it much like you would do when elk
>> hunting to haul it away from your homestead?  This should leave cleaver
>> marks but not cut marks.
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>> 4.       During the first half of the 18th century what mechanisms were in
>> place to dispose of old, dead or sickly horses?  Later there were glue
>> factories, dog food companies and fertilizer companies.
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>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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>> Bill Liebeknecht, RPA
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>> Hunter Research, Inc.
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I don't know of horses being eaten here in SC, but it wouldn't surprise 
me. Maybe Martha Zierden or Elizabeth Reitz could help. I do know that 
Stan South excavated a horse burial at Charlestowne (in an 18th c 
context as I recall). And I found some horse bones buried under a hearth 
in the cellar of the main house at Pine Grove plantation, near 
Charleston, in a 19th c context.