[Bonetools] Bone object

[Alice Choyke]

Dear Leigh,
     Just to be clear - what species and what skeletal element is this
object made from? The manufacturing wear visible on the edges smay indicate
whether this is a prehistoric object or not - if only flint and abrasive
materials were used in its manufacture then it would be a very odd roman
object indeed.
       I would be most careful of descriptions of bone tools  attributing
them to 'decorating pottery' without the appropriat use wear analyses..
Notched edges can be used for a number of other puposes. . That said - this
object does not look like any kind of roman bone tool that one finds in
pannonia. The local Celtic population here is also producing mainly
ornaments from osseous materials or objects that are parts of compound
tools. This looks a bit like a self-standing object unless the tanged end
was somhow embedded in a handle.

Alice

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Leigh Allen
<leigh.allen at oxfordarch.co.uk>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I attach a photograph of a rather beautiful bone object recovered from one
> of our excavations at Didcot, Oxfordshire, if anyone can tell me what it may
> have been used for I would be most grateful, it came from a Late Roman
> context. The closest parallel I have found so far are Prehistoric tools for
> decorating pots although these tend to have teeth at the splayed end and a
> perforation through the centre.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Leigh Allen
>
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