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The enchanted killer

Tom Brodrick said:
Have a look at a video made yesterday (31/08/10) re otters & barbel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-VXCA3rKOw
I fish a typical Yorkshire river several days a week and frequently see otters but I have yet to see a fish on the bank with obvious otter damage (whatever that is). On the very rare occasions I have seen a large, dead fish it is being pecked by carrion crows which usually start with softer parts.
Cheers.
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The animal is not a young otter. It is a mink.
 
Never never land, where otters eat jam doughnuts and I still have some big Wensum barbel to catch.... Dream on!
 
Yeah, no doubt some ancient Saxon going about doing an honest days otter culling when the Hunt Sabs caught up with him!
 
Or an Anglo-Saxon fisherman's burial...

5th to 9th Century Saxons continued their pagan burial rites beside their newly adopted Christianity, their cremated bodies (bits of bone remaining) being mixed with the bones of significant / important animals to them in life and important for them in the afterlife. And we all know about the Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk, a huge ship and mega-treasure for a great Anglo-Saxon king.

So, the Norfolk find - maybe some Anglo-Saxon eeler buried with the remains of the true professionals he saw at work in the water as he himself worked...
 
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