ABSTRACT
In 1979, 19 horse skeletons were found together in a pit measuring 2 x 4 metres, at a depth of 2 m, during the excavation of Jan Meijenstraat in Utrecht, the Netherlands. These 19 complete or nearly complete horses provided an opportunity to examine the variations in size and shape that may be related to breed. The excavation was carried out by the Archaeological Service of the Municipality of Utrecht. During this excavation a large number of square A.D. 15th/16th century pits was found. The faunal remains of most of these pits consist mainly of complete animal skeletons. There are dogs, pigs and, most frequently, horses. Only the bones with certainty ascribed to a horse are drawn. The postcranial skeleton allows some conclusions on the age at death of the horses of which no teeth are present.
