[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[V. Rajkovaca]

Yes, please, Dale!

I have been working on the Trumpington Meadows ring ditches assemblage 
recently, assessing those beautiful antlers I showed you in July!

Your 'chalky' argument- although we are not quite on chalk here, the 
underlying geology is 'sands and gravels with occasional patches of exposed 
chalk marl which overlay the chalk bedrock' (British Geological Survey 
1995)- so I think your argument stands.

Thank you!
Best wishes,
Vida


On Sep 14 2012, Serjeantson D. wrote:

> 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 
> ________________________________ From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu 
> [bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] on behalf of Alice Choyke 
> [choyke at ceu.hu] Sent: 14 September 2012 12:01 To: Mailing list for 
> archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of 
> bone, antler. ivory and horn. Subject: Re: [Bonetools] Burning Antler
>
>
>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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Vida Rajkovaca 
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