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2000-Year-Old Cat Paw Prints Discovered on Tile
news.discovery.com ^ | Jul 30, 2015 01:26 PM ET | by Rossella Lorenzi

Posted on 07/31/2015 12:45:07 PM PDT by Red Badger

The cat paw print on the Roman roof tile.

David Rice

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Paw prints made by a cat 2,000 years ago have been found on a Roman roof tile kept at a museum in south west England.

Dug up in Gloucester in 1969, the tile fragment had long lain unnoticed at Gloucester City Museum.

Only recently, a researcher spotted the cat’s paw on the tile while going through the finds from the 1969 archaeological excavation.

“At that time the archaeologists seem to have been more interested in digging things up than looking at what they found,” David Rice, curator at Gloucester City Museum, told Discovery News.

The cat is thought to have run across the wet clay tile when it was left out to dry in about AD100.

Despite the feline footprints, the Romans fired the tile, a type called tegula, and used it on the roof of a building in what became the Berkeley Street area of modern Gloucester.

It is possible the cat was a Roman army cat, the pet of a Roman soldier who stationed at the site.

The tile is now on display at the Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery.

“The marks are the only example for Roman domestic cats that visitors can see in the museum,” Rice said.

“I believe there are more cat paw prints found on ancient Roman tiles in Britain than anywhere else in the Roman Empire including Italy. Roman Britons must have had a special liking for cats,” he added.

Cat Paw Prints Found on 15th-Century Manuscript:

http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/medieval-cat-paw-prints-found-on-15th-century-manuscript-130404.htm


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; cats; ggg; gloucester; godsgravesglyphs; paws; romanempire; tegula; tile
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To: ColdOne

When you succeed, please ping me.


21 posted on 07/31/2015 12:56:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: TexasCajun; Monkey Face

I knew you didn’t mean it. Not enough froth on your mouth.


22 posted on 07/31/2015 12:57:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Roman Britons must have had a special liking for cats

But Romans didn’t care for Briton’s bulldogs.
Latin code has been found requiring that bulldogs be “tethered with a stout chain” when brought into public places.
The cat lobby ...


23 posted on 07/31/2015 12:58:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Red Badger

Not Cecil.


24 posted on 07/31/2015 1:05:47 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: Red Badger

You found my Cat?

25 posted on 07/31/2015 1:06:24 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: TexasCajun

DRINK!


26 posted on 07/31/2015 1:07:25 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

There is a reason they kept us Cats around...
27 posted on 07/31/2015 1:07:49 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: rikkir
Did you see Uncle Si's Black Panther on Duck Dynasty?


28 posted on 07/31/2015 1:16:15 PM PDT by TexasCajun ( “A liberal is someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.“)
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To: TexasCajun

My Grandson swears there’s one in the woods encompassing our hillside here in Eastern KY.

I have heard what I believe to be a Mountain Lion at night here.

Maybe? We have plenty of Bobcats, and Coyotes.


29 posted on 07/31/2015 1:21:41 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: windcliff

Ping


30 posted on 07/31/2015 1:31:36 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: Red Badger

This falls into the category of: “Is the Pope Catholic?”

When I lived in the Houston area, my entry hall was paved with Saltillo tile. I had a big doggie paw print in one of them. But, my neighbor had a Mexican footprint in hers. I thought it was charming.


31 posted on 07/31/2015 1:45:08 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Slings and Arrows

Only if the cat’s name is Cecil.


32 posted on 07/31/2015 1:46:52 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
This falls into the category of: “Is the Pope Catholic?”

Today you have to wonder........................

33 posted on 07/31/2015 1:49:19 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: gov_bean_ counter; martin_fierro
Cat on a Hot Clay Roof...

You win the internets today. Well played, sir.

34 posted on 07/31/2015 2:04:07 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: Red Badger

It gives one paws.


35 posted on 07/31/2015 2:05:53 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: LostInBayport

Romans discovered Cats in Ancient Egypt and spread them all over their empire. Not as pets so much as mouse catchers. The Egyptian Religion of Isis also spred cats about as objects of worship (cats have never forgotten). Core to Isis worship was living forever—many Romans liked that idea.


36 posted on 07/31/2015 2:08:50 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Charles Henrickson

....and one only.................


37 posted on 07/31/2015 2:09:47 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

LOL


38 posted on 07/31/2015 2:11:11 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

39 posted on 07/31/2015 2:11:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger
Paw prints made by a cat 2,000 years ago

OMG, cats existed back then? Who woulda thought.......

40 posted on 07/31/2015 2:19:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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