[Bonetools] Fwd: A strange antler tool

[Gun-Britt]

Hello all,

I am a lurking list-member, just enjoying reading all your inputs. I think too toward a metalworking tool, in making threads of metal of different thicknesses. It sure looks like a sort of "key" or mechanism, but hey, I have done some goldsmithing, and we used a similar tool to pull the metal into thinner and thinner threads. Hard work, but tin - as suggested earlier - is a very soft metal. 

Just a thought,
Please continue,
Love and blessings,
**Gun-Britt Blomdahl
5th year, thesis-writing at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christian Küchelmann 
  To: BONETOOLS of bone 
  Cc: Michael Olausson 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:12 PM
  Subject: [Bonetools] Fwd: A strange antler tool


  Dear all,


  following up a request by Michael Olausson that has already been sent to the list by Alice last week (see below) I would like to add that the tool is now permanently visible for further discussion on the Mystery bone tool page of the WBRG website at 
  http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20


  Best


  Christian


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  Dear All,
      I am forwarding a letter and photo from a Swedish colleague. Another strange tool. It looks like some part of a mechanism - a locking mechanism? However Michael Olausson also says it has some resemblances to a tool used by the Sami for producing tin thread! If you reply to Michael could you also please CC the list so we can all read about it?

  Alice


  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
  From: Michael Olausson <michael.olausson673 at gmail.com>
  Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM
  Subject: A strange antler tool
  To: h13017cho at helka.iif.hu


  Dear Dr. Alice Choyke,
  Dr Kordula Gostencnik suggested that I should contact You in this
  matter. I will send You my letter to her as well with the picture of
  the item. Dr Gostencnik dod�t regard the toll as one conected to
  textil handcraft. She suggestes that it might be a toy, I do not agree
  with her, if it should look like a "bear" then it should be made as a
  bear! Since there are three differnt kinds of "measurements" of the
  teeth, I radaer would thinkt that it has been used to make threads ore
  to measure threads. We have a little discussion in Stockholm if it
  could be used for metal, silver and gold.
  The tool wich has many similarties with a Roman antler key, was found
  in mixed layers on a house terrace on the hilltop site,
  "H�hensiedlung" Runsa frpm the 5th & 6th centuries.

  It would be nice if You could have some ideas, references.

  Yours Sincerely
  Michael Olausson
  ass.prof



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