[Bonetools] bone tool of the month

Alice Choyke h13017cho at iif.hu
Tue Oct 27 13:05:49 CET 2009 

Heidi and Anne - would there be an objection of using your photos for bone
tool of the month ay one month after the other?

Alice

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Anne Brundle
<Anne.brundle at orkney.gov.uk>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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>
> *From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:
> bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] *On Behalf Of *Heidi Luik
> *Sent:* 27 October 2009 08:36
>
> *To:* Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study
> ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and horn.
> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> At 16:48 26.10.2009, you wrote:
>
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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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>
> *From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu<bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu>]
> *On Behalf Of *S O'Connor
> *Sent:* 26 October 2009 13:17
> *To:* 'Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study
> ofobject and waste of bone,antler. ivory and horn.'
> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] bone tool of the month
>
> 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
>
> [image: So ne ya]Dr Sonia O'Connor FSA FIIC ACR
> Archaeological Sciences
> Division of AGES, University of Bradford
> Bradford, West Yorkshire,  BD7 1DP
> UK.
>
> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
> fax 01274 23 5190
>
>
> *From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu<bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu>]
> *On Behalf Of *Anne Brundle
> *Sent:* 26 October 2009 09:33
> *To:* Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for thestudy
> of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
> *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
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu<bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu>]
> *On Behalf Of *Alice Choyke
> *Sent:* 25 October 2009 17:33
> *To:* Bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> *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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