[Bonetools] Iron Age? pin

h13017cho at helka.iif.hu h13017cho at helka.iif.hu
Thu Mar 25 11:18:45 CET 2010


Dear David and mystery Iron Age archaeologist,

    First of all, your BONE pin   looks like ANTLER to me. I have a small antler pin from a 
completely different time and place which is almost certainly a spindle. However, if the 
surface is so worn (typical for antler) then it will be impossible to tell unless the context is 
somehow suggestive. However, I also admit I know very little about Iron Age bone and antler 
working in the Carpathian Basin. Karl perhaps has seen something similar in Austria?

Alice 



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