[Bonetools] Burning Antler

[Ben Elliott]

Hi,

Here's a copy of Dale's paper on the Stonehenge bone and antler 
artefacts for your perusal.

Enjoy!

Ben Elliott


On 14/09/2012 14:18, V. Rajkovaca wrote:
> 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 
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>> 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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