Chicken Humerus EOA:2022:90.1

3D Model

Chicken humerus from the wreck of the Earl Of Abergavenny.

ID: EOA:2022.90.1 OE379

Collection: Earl of Abergavenny

Classification: Remains

Measurements: Length 133mm Width 35mm

Date made: as yet unknown

Display: not on display

Manufacturer/Creator: as yet unknown

Credit: Portland Museum Trust

Some five hundred chickens would have been on board the Abergavenny to provide fresh eggs and food for the captain’s table. They were kept in pens on the roof of the roundhouse, although a number of chicken bones recovered from the wreck were found towards the bow area. These however could be discarded debris from meals already eaten. Certainly the noise on board the “walking larder” of the deck would have been heard by the passengers in their cabins below.

Information courtesy of Ed Cumming and Dr Philip Armitage.

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