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/* Beaver */
*York, England: 4 bones (possibly from the same animal). C8th-C9th. [SPRIGGS 1998:p.95]
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*Fur: Beaver was probably used to trim women's clothing in Sweden [HAGG 19841986] and to trim the King's garments in Wales [SPRIGGS 1998]. The beaver fur found on penannulars in Birka may have been from fur trimmed cloaks worn by rich warriors [AGREN 1995:p.57].
*Food: Geraldus in around c.1200 describes the tails of beavers being classed as a fish and being suitable food during lent. [SPRIGGS 1998:p.97]
*Properties:Beavers testicles were believed to have medicinal properties since classical times, a belief that had been repeated by Aesop, Aristotle, Solinus, Juvenal and Pliny the Elder [SPRIGGS 1998:p.96]
