[Bonetools] Comments on an Object

[Steve Ashby]

Nice object! I can't really see how it's a gaming piece either. And I can't
think of much Late Saxon that looks like that. I'd guess later, though it
does have certain (presumably coincidental) similarities with earlier
material from north of the border, don't you think?

Steve



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On 14 August 2015 at 15:21, Alice Choyke <choyke at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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