[Bonetools] Comments on an Object

[Pajx]

Hi - yes, a lovely piece. 
Don't suppose anyone has any idea what the opposite side looks like? I can't tell from the photo whether it's likely to be the same as the shown side or flat. Though if it were flat it seems unlikely to have been interpreted as a gaming piece?


As Steve has mentioned, the style and subject are very reminiscent of Hiberno-Norse and 'Viking' influence objects, which would put it in the period ascribed. I can see if I can find some examples in my files, if you like...


cheers
Pam


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From: Steve Ashby <steve.ashby at york.ac.uk>
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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?   
   
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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?     
      
     
     
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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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