Horses were central to life in medieval England as farm labour, in battle and for transport, and also served as status symbols. Alexander Pryor at the University of Exeter, UK, and his colleagues were able to glean information about the international reach of medieval horse-trading networks from an unusual source: a horse cemetery near Westminster, in what is now central London, that was the final resting place of what were probably elite animals owned by elite households1.
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