Wright, Elizabeth, Davies, Callan, Lamb, Angela, Miller, Holly, Rielly, Kevin, Charlton, Sophy, Kesson, Andy, Larson, Greger, Lewis, Liam and O'Regan, Hannah J.
2025.
What does a bear baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern “sport”.
Antiquity
99
(404)
, pp. 536-552.
10.15184/aqy.2024.228
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.228
Abstract
Bear baiting was a popular and culturally important form of entertainment in Shakespeare’s England. It occurred all over the country, but was most formalised in Bankside, London, a key early modern entertainment hub. Here, we bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence from nine archaeological sites in Bankside to define features specific to bear baiting. We then provide a model for identifying bear baiting assemblages in the archaeological record of England and beyond.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0003-598X |
| Funders: | UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project (AH/T006552/1) |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 28 October 2024 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 13 September 2024 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2025 12:55 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/172660 |
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