[Bonetools] strange AD 11th-12th century tool

[Etan Ayalon]

Dear Alice,

This seems a nice tool used to scrape, polish etc. some soft material.
You definitely had many horses there but scraping row leather or
removing hair and superfluous flesh from it is another possibility. Each
end of the tool, which is narrower than the central working part, could
be used as a small handle. Double-handled tools were used to scrape
leather in many countriesand many periods, with the large piece resting
on a wide wooden beam leaning diagonally against a wall or a stool, and
the worker stands on top of it, helds the tool in both hands and scrapes
the leather part after part, from top to bottom. See if you can find one
of these books for a photo:

Wulff, H.E. 1966. The Traditional Crafts of Persia. The M.I.T. Press,
Cambridge, Mass. and London, P. 232 Fig. 323.

Dalman, G. 1937. Arbeit und Sitte in Palaestina, Band V. Guetersloch
(repr. By Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, Hildesheim), Photo 37.

Etan Ayalon  

 

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Any ideas what this strange rib-based object from the site of Galgagyork
(Arpad period -   

AD 11th-12th century) could be. Laszlo has already suggested it might be
a tool used for 

cleaning the sweat off horses based on its shape and wear.

 

Alice

 

 

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