[Bonetools] Comments on an Object

[Alice Choyke]

I have absolutely no idea about possible analogies for this carving but
does the object as a whole look as much like a seahorse as it seems to?

Alice

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:13 PM, trzaska at lineone.net <trzaska at lineone.net>
wrote:

>
> Dear Specialists,
>
> The enclosed poster is for an exhibition of Anglo-Saxon objects in
> Southampton, England, which
> begins at the end of this week. I'm sure that you will all want to go to
> the exhibition, but my
> question is really about the lovely object displayed on the poster. It
> came from Westgate Street in
> Southampton, a site within the boundaries of medieval Southampton.
>
>
>
> The object is advertised as Late Saxon (10th to mid 11th century) but I
> suspect that it is much
> later in date. Has anybody seen anything like it ?
>
>
>
> Ian Riddler
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