[Bonetools] A Bone ?Pendant from Oxford

[Dr C.M. Hills]

Dear Ian,  Looks to me like the animals you get on 8th-9th c MSS and 
metalwork- Leslie Webster is expert on those. I think I can see a pair 
of beasts with heads, oval eyes and lappets between pairs of feathered 
feet- a pair of feet by suspension loop and another pair lower down. But 
it also looks very plant like! Try it on Leslie. Date would fit ok, esp 
as presumably discarded. Catherine
  On 24/02/2016 10:19, trzaska at lineone.net wrote:
> This beautiful bone object has just emerged from an excavation in
> Oxford. It is pierced laterally
> at the apex and has a second perforation near the base, obscured by
> corrosion. I haven't seen
> anything like it and wonder if anybody has come across anything
> similar. I don't have any context
> details for it yet but, given that it came from Oxford, it is likely
> to date from c AD 900 - 1500.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help very gratefully received,
> 
> 
> 
> Ian Riddler
> 
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