[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Serjeantson D.]

Hello all
I do not have a pdf of the chapter (must make one ...). What I do have is an article in press by Fay Worley and myself which covers the same topic but expands it beyond the Stonehenge assemblage. I can send a copy of the text and figures to anyone who would like a copy. Please let me know.

Dale

Dale Serjeantson
Archaeology
School of Humanities
University of Southampton

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/profiles/serjeantson.html
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Does anyone have a copy of the Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995 article?



On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33 PM, trzaska at lineone.net<mailto:trzaska at lineone.net> <trzaska at lineone.net<mailto:trzaska at lineone.net>> wrote:
Fire blackening of antler to assist in removing the tines has been suggested on a number occasions
in England, mainly for neolithic material. The illustrations here are not very good (my apologies
!) but they show an antler from a neolithic context, recovered from an important site at
Trumpington in Cambridgeshire, which has been fire blackened around the junction with the trez
tine, and also along the beam. The suggestion is that localised charring of antler, undertaken
probably with a wooden brand, was commonly used as a working technique at this time (Clutton-Brock
1984, 26; Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995, 420-1).  It made the antler more brittle and easier to
separate.  The same technique can also be seen on some Neolithic bone objects (Senepart 1985,
39).



These are old studies of course but they might be useful. Trumpington will be published in a few
years time.



Clutton-Brock, J., 1984 Neolithic Antler Picks from Grimes Graves, Norfolk and Durrington Walls,
Wiltshire: a Biometrical Analysis, London



Senepart, I., 1985      L’industrie osseuse cardiale de Provence, in H. Camps-Fabrer, L’industrie en Os
et Bois de Cervidés durant le Néolithique et l’Age des Métaux 3, Paris, 37-43



Serjeantson, D. and Gardiner, J., 1995  Antler Implements and Ox Scapulae Shovels and Animal Bone,
in R. M. J. Cleal, K. E. Walker and R. Montague, Stonehenge and its Landscape: Twentieth Century
Excavations, English Heritage Archaeological Report 10, London, 414-30 and 437-51



Ian Riddler

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