[Bonetools] Early-Med Bone Keys

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Hello Steve,

There are no early medieval antler or bone keys from Ipswich, Hamwic, Southampton, Dublin or 
Ireland as a whole that I have seen, and the West Stow objects are similar to one example published 
by Anna Roes, but don't seem to occur anywhere else. I will just check up on the numerous early 
Anglo-Saxon sites from East Anglia that haven't been published yet. Meanwhile I have published a 
possible antler key stem of a different type from Brandon, and I enclose that here, alongside 
Brandon's fabulous collection of metal keys,



Ian Riddler



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>From: steve.ashby at york.ac.uk

>Date: 09/10/2015 13:43

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>Hi all,

>

>I have a PhD student working on keys from early-medieval contexts

>(primarily metals), but she has come across several examples of bone keys.

>Is anyone aware of a good synthesis of these, or of any nice examples we

>might be unaware of?

>

>The issue emerges from a possible example from (I think) West Stow, and we

>also know of a whalebone tumbler key from North Ronaldsay (Orkney). Anyone

>aware of examples from (for instance) Hedeby, Birka, Southampton, Ipswich?

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

>Steve

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