[Bonetools] Mystery bone object (Leigh Allen)

[Keily, Jackie]

Hi Leigh,

This looks very like implements that we have found in London from sites
such as No. One Poultry (in deposits dated to 11th/early 12th c.) and
the Guildhall yard - all early medieval. The scoops are always very
smooth and shiny as if the object was used as a stop or wedge against a
wheel or some such. Ours are also cattle.

All the best,

Jackie



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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: Leigh Allen <leigh.allen at oxfordarch.co.uk>
Subject: [Bonetools] Mystery bone object
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Dear All, 

I am new to this site, so let me briefly introduce myself. I am the
Finds manager at Oxford Archaeology and have been for the last 20 years
!! I also write reports on Medieval/Post Medieval metalwork and worked
bone objects. I have an object from a site that we excavated in
Winchester that I would like to ask you about (see attached photos). It
is from a rubble later dated anywhare from 5th-13th century !  

The cattle metacarpal has a large scoop taken out of the proximal end,
the surface is perfectly smooth and very heavily polished but the rest
of the bone is not. At the distal end, which is damaged, another scoop
has been removed but it is not smoothed or polished to the same degree.
Striations in the polished surfaces indicate a longitudinal direction of
wear. The wear is so great and so regular it would almost imply that it
was machine made.

Any help would be most gratefully received 

Kind regards 

Leigh Allen    


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