[Bonetools] Worked Bronze Age sheep femur

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Lena - and to add to what François suggests - if this circular edge is
an active edge then you really need to send an acetate strip copy of it to
someone who studies micro-use wear on bone because clay should leave a
different signature from leather for example. I could imagine that if this
is a tool used to make a repeated circle ornament it could also have been
used to incise designs on leather or bark! I need hardly add that France has
a number of very talented specialists in bone use wear so you don't very far
to go.

Alice

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

> Dear Miss,
>
> my very first impression is.. don't you have any circular impression on
> ware, clay, etc. ?
>
> Your's.
>
> Lena Strid a écrit :
>
>  Dear all,
>>
>> I have the distal half of a sheep femur from a Bronze Age deposit at a
>> site just outside London. I'm not so good at prehistoric worked bone, and I
>> hope you could help me identify its function.
>>
>> The bone has been sawn off horisontally at mid-shaft. The edge is smooth
>> (with an exception for a jagged part of the lateral side). Unfortunately the
>> bone surface is badly eroded, and I can't tell whether there have been any
>> polished areas on the shaft itself.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/A13MoversLane-cxt5158-Sheepfemur1_5.jpg
>>
>> Let me know if you need more photos.
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> /Lena
>>
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