[Bonetools] antler artifact request1

[Heidi Luik]

Dear Herbert,

It seems that there are some similar artefacts in one Czechoslovakian book:
Vilem Hruby. Slovanske kostene predmety a jejich 
vyroba na Morave (Suzammenfassung: Die Slawischen 
Beingegenstände und ihre Erzeugung in Mähren). – 
Pamatky Archeologicke, cislo I, rocnik XLVIII, 
1957. Ceskoslovenska Akademie Ved.
I add two illustrations from this book and a page 
from summary where these are mentioned.
Sorry about quality – I do not have the book, but 
only a poor quality copy of the article.
I guess, maybe your artefact is an unfinished specimen.

Best wishes,
Heidi Luik



At 10:55 25.11.2009, you wrote:
>dear all,
>does anyone know such antler-artifacts? -it was excavated from an early
>iron age settlement in lower austria. For me, it looks like a part of a
>more complex composite tool.
>it´s probably made of a brow tine or bay tine and the surface was
>carefully carved so the original pearled surface was completely removed.
>the tip seems to be slightly polished and rounded but doesn´t show signs
>of heavy use so i believe the main thing to reconstruct the function is
>the transverse notch carved out at the opposite end of the tool.
>Unfortunately, there is for sure a part missing in this area because the
>"gap" you see (e.g. picture 3)seems to be the result of at least one
>modern and probably another "antique" crack. as you can see on picture 2
>and 4 there was obviously no "functional" hole worked in the spongy
>part-maybe just a slight groove was carved in.
>i´m grateful about any comments...
>all the best
>herbert
>
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