Pig foot

Readers who do not read the 'New Scientist' may be interested to know that, during the economic downturn caused some 3,000 years ago by the long term, indeed terminal, decline of the bronze trade, the ancients of Glamorgan went in for bizarre pigfests which seemed to be almost exclusively focused on the front right feet of said animals.

Apart from speculating on what these pigfests might have been about, one can only wonder at the dedication of the staff of the National Museum of Wales who had near 75,000 bone fragments to sort out.

Readers who want more than is to be found at reference 1 below will be invited by the Syndics of the University Press of Cambridge to cough up £15. Click on the illustration for all the grisly details. But you can feast on the grand title of the paper there advertised for free.

Reference 1: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28024-iron-age-britons-engaged-in-mysterious-pig-trotter-festivals/.