[Bonetools] antler artifact request1

[Petar Zidarov]

Dear Herbert,
In my opinion, you probably have an unfinished preform (Halbfabrikat) of a horse bit (die s.g. Stangenknebel). An argument in favour of this assumption could be the notch and probably the one further to the center of the object visible on your pic2. Both may have served as guiding marks for the places chosen for perforation. In this line of reasoning it is not unlikely that your piece broke during the first attempt for making a hole at the base, causing its abandonment. Herewith, I attach an article where you could find the production sequence I envisaged for such objects, as well as further references. 

If you are interested to collect more information on similar finds from Early Iron Age in Central Europe, I recommend you start with Boroffka (1998) where you will find a nice typology and distribution maps
 based on the state of research by then. Further you will certainly find useful and updated information among the contributions in the excellent volume "Rad und Wagen" by Fansa & Burmeister (2004).

Best wishes, 
Petar

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Petar Zidarov

Lab of Archaeometry & Experimental Archaeology

Department of Archaeology, New Bulgarian University

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BG-1618 Sofia, BULGARIA



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--- On Wed, 11/25/09, Herbert Boehm <a9504315 at unet.univie.ac.at> wrote:

From: Herbert Boehm <a9504315 at unet.univie.ac.at>
Subject: [Bonetools] antler artifact request1
To: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 8:55 AM

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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