[Bonetools] cross_bone_?

[trzaska at lineone.net]

Dear Gunther,

It might be a chess piece, although the decoration would be very unusual for that purpose (if not 
unique). It could also be a playing piece for a different game. Here is a pdf of a 1995 text that I 
wrote about the English series of chess pieces, for anybody who is vaguely interested in this sort 
of thing,



All best wishes,



Ian Riddler



>----Original Message----

>From: guenther.karl.kunst at univie.ac.at

>Date: 06/06/2012 15:32 

>To: "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of

>	object and waste of bone,

>	antler. ivory and horn."<bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>

>Subj: Re: [Bonetools] cross_bone_?

>

>Dear Sonia, Alice and Salima,

>thank you so much for suggestions and observations. Walrus would be an 

>option, it is the far north of Austria (bordering to the "Czech 

>Canada"). Better images are being made, I will communicate your ideas to 

>the excavator.

>all the best

>Karl

>

>S O'Connor schrieb:

>> Dear Karl,

>>

>> It is difficult to see enough detail from these images but there is a

>> possibility they this is walrus ivory - there seems to be a distinction

>> between featureless material and an area with a whorled structure.  Antler

>> pedicle can also show a similar combination of features but to carry this

>> forward I would need to see better images of these different areas and the

>> junction between them at higher magnification (with a scale if you can).

>> The colour could be deliberate staining or due to the burial environment.  I

>> have had some walrus ivory playing pieces that look like dark amber.

>>

>> Thanks,

>>

>> Sonia

>>

>> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of

>> York

>> Post-doctoral Research Fellow

>> Archaeological Sciences

>> Division of AGES,

>> University of Bradford

>> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

>>

>> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)

>> fax 01274 23 5210

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu

>> [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of Günther Karl Kunst

>> Sent: 04 June 2012 11:32

>> To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of

>> object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.

>> Subject: [Bonetools] cross_bone_?

>>

>> Der Alice and all!

>> Unfortunately, this is not meant as an immediate reponse concerning a

>> bonetool of the month, because the circumstances (stray find), property

>> issues and identity (material) are still too vague. It was found by a local

>> collector in the vicinity of a former castle in a (nowadays) remote area of

>> northern Lower Austria. It was shown to me by Sabine Felgenhauer from the

>> prehistoric department who carries out excavations in the castle area

>> (pottery of High Medieval - 11th-13th c). The oblong object, with a

>> cross-engraving on both sides, feels "warm" haptically and has been worked

>> (file, saw, ...) all over its surface, and I think/hope it is an animal

>> tissue, but not quite sure about that. No original surface left, and what is

>> the meaning of the "structural lines"

>> (dentine-ivory, antler?)? Excavator put forward ideas about a gaming

>> piece/chessman. I attach several pictures I took under not quite ideal

>> cicrumstances.

>> Any suggestions welcome!

>> all the best

>> Karl

>>

>>

>>

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