[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Aurochs was: Regretable foods.... OOP]

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

>Philip & Susan Troy wrote: snipped .....................

> example, the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial has some drinking horns taken
>from the aurochs, which is believed to have been extinct (and may have
>been)   by the approximate time of the burial (7th-8th C. C.E.?)

    I realize England is not Poland, and there may be some traveling
issues involved, but a long time ago I read that the last aurochs were
kept and finally killed in hunting preserves of Polish royalty in the
earl 1600s.

    Is this true, or has it been disproven???

    Elizabeth

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