[Bonetools] Particular early medieval comb

[Alice Choyke]

Dear all - Someone does need to take a close look at the use wear on the
teeth because it also looks like it was used for something besides combing
hair as Francois correctly points add. to add one more possibility to his
list - beating down the weft during weaving with a warp-weighted loom.

Alice

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:01 AM, François Poplin <poplin at mnhn.fr> wrote:

> It looks made in order to extract more than comb. For felt ?
> Or for scaling ???
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> Le 20/07/2016 à 14:58, nathalie pil a écrit :
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> Goodday to you all,
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> I would like to know if somebody already found this type of comb (see
> attachment). It's an early medieval comb with teeth called 'fath teeth'.
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> This comb is found in Quentovic (North France) and Hamwic/Southampton in
> England (excavation Ian Riddler).
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> Kind regards,
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> Nathalie
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