@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.1384, 

TITLE={Housing, caring for, feeding and exploiting animals. The contribution of instrumentum for agro-pastoral farms in the north of Roman Gaul}, 
  
AUTHOR={Guillaume Huitorel
, Luc Leconte, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Archaeology, Society and Environment}, 
	
VOLUME={6}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2025}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Housing-caring-for-feeding-and-exploiting-animals-The-contribution-of}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.1384}, 
	
ISSN={2752-4507}, 
	
ABSTRACT={The identification of the animal housing from the instrumentum is difficult because the metallic furniture related to the breeding and management of animals is particularly few. For example, the frequent discovery of bell trees is an illustration of the animal outside and raises the question of the type of housing, sheltered, open or mixed. Concerning housing directly, the elements discovered in rural settlements, doorframes, reinforcements of chests or chains, illustrate the building in a generic way. Only the attachment rings seem specific to the animal world. Some tools like the fake are related to animal feed. However, the limited use of this tool is a debate among archaeologists, even if mentions are known in several ancient texts. Consideration should also be given to objects intended to manage manure, namely forks, the two known forms of which, made of wood and iron, may correspond to two different uses. Animal care can be studied. They are essentially instruments intended to maintain the coat and to avoid diseases such as the stirrups. The tools associated with the veterinarian are more problematic to discover, because the objects are identical to those used in medicine.}}