[Bonetools] A bone flute from South-Central Finland? Suggestions? Analogies?

[François Poplin]

Good morning,

I discover your two views now. The 2nd is very dark : could you clear it 
up ? (is there some brown/black deposit ??)

Is the length profile straight (as on a canon-bone) or bent (as on an 
antler) ?

My main point is the modified surface on the right, on the 1rst view. At 
first glimpse, there is something as an annular groove with flat bottom, 
as for setting some metallic ring (which helped you, I presume, to think 
in the way of flute) ; but the edge on the right of that "flat groove" 
is not regular, as if some decoration started/ended there.

Maybe I can help you further.

Le 26/06/2013 19:33, Tuukka Kumpulainen a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> Today at rescue excavations at the Tursiannotko multi-period (Viking Age - 19th Century) site in Pirkkala, South-Central Finland a fragment of a beautiful, hollow, perforated bone artefact was found from a mixed-deposit context. The best suggestion for its function so far is a musical instrument, ie. a bone flute. I'm turning to the expertise of the collective WBRG in hope of alternative or confirmative interpretations of the artefact, as well as any possible analogies in the archaeological collections of osseous artefacts in Europe.
>
> I apologise for the mediocre field photos of the find.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Tuukka Kumpulainen
> University of Turku
> Finland
>
>
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