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Plough Team
The ox was a very important animal to a poor medieval family. They used their oxen to pull the plough that ploughed the lord's land. In return, the lord gave them a cottage and some land of their own
 Compare the list of animal species compiled from animal bones found at cottages 
to the one compiled from bones recovered around manor,
or return to previous cottage reconstruction image.
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