[Bonetools] bone tool of the month
Anne Brundle
Anne.brundle at orkney.gov.uk
Tue Oct 27 12:05:17 CET 2009
Thanks Heidi, that's lots to think about!
Best wishes
Anne
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[mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Heidi Luik
Sent: 27 October 2009 10:31
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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month
Dear Anne,
It looks very nice and probably it is a pendant. Estonian pendants are
dated to the last quarter of first millennium AD. In Estonia all of them
are found from settlement sites or hillforts, but in northwestern Russia
some are found from graves also.
Best wishes,
Heidi
At 12:14 27.10.2009, you wrote:
I strongly suspect that some of the Orkney small combs are also pendants
but I'm not sure about all of them.
I attach an image of one of our likely pendants, not as nice as the
Estonian version! Unfortunately it eroded out at the coast and thus has
no context, but the general quality would be right for the mid to late
first millennium AD. Sorry for the lack of a scale, it's about 20-25mm
wide.
Best wishes
Anne
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Sent: 27 October 2009 08:36
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Hello,
I send some pictures of Estonian miniature combs. To my opinion these
(from Estonia and northwest Russia) are at first pendants, having some
symbolic meaning. I suppose all of them were not used for combing at
all. But some of them were, e.g. pendant from Pada with use wear on its
teeth.
About wear on the comb teeth, I suppose that long hair will leave more
traces on the comb. As an "experiment" (not very seriously, but just for
fun) I add a picture of comb teeth with wear traces. It is not a bone
comb, but plastic one (actually my own). It has been used about 8-9
years, I have all this time had a hair about until shoulders or a little
longer. It has quite clear wear on the base of teeth. As a comparison I
can say that my husband's comb (he has short hair) does not have such
wear, but my son's (who has hair longer than me), also has similar use
wear at the base of teeth.
Best greetings,
Heidi
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The comb is listed as antler in the report, but I am interested to hear
other opinions. Anyone passing through Kirkwall, do drop in!
I don't know the eastern European small and miniature combs, I think
Steve and Julia may be some of the very few people who have seen them
and the Orcadian combs. Arthur Macgregor's 1985 account (p.78) predates
the discovery of several of the small combs in this museum, and I think
the overall interpretation may be different now.
Re small combs, where does the idea of 'beard combs' come from?
Anne
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mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of S O'Connor
Sent: 26 October 2009 13:17
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What is it made from in your opinion Alice? Palmate antler? It looks
like whale bone but I can't quite make it out from the pictures of the
edge.
Sonia
Dr Sonia O'Connor FSA FIIC ACR
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES, University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
UK.
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mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Anne Brundle
Sent: 26 October 2009 09:33
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Subject: Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month
Hi Alice,
Many apologies, here is a comb that is interesting me at the moment. It
is from the broch at Howe in Stromness, and is described as 'found in
ditch deposits' dating to the early centuries AD (Ballin Smith (ed)
1994, 177). This is one of three single-sided one-piece combs in the
Orkney Museum (as distinct from miniatures), but this one has a very
very close parallel from Kettleburn in Caithness, and I'm wondering how
many more there may be.
If anyone is interested, the full excavation report for Howe is
available online thanks to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/monograph09.cfm , and the
comb's catalogue number is HH 4907.
Best wishes
Anne
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mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Alice Choyke
Sent: 25 October 2009 17:33
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Subject: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month
Dear colleagues,
I am still waiting for all those amazing pictures of bone tool of
the month for 2010. I need twelve and at the moment only two of you have
responded with any pictures. It can be an all Hungarian year but that
would be a pity.
Alice
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