[Bonetools] help with material identification

[Steve Ashby]

Indeed. I always thought this was red deer (though has been published as
both reindeer and ivory). But needs ZooMS.

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On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 at 16:34, Sonia O'Connor <S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Wow!! Definitely antler no two ways about it.  The body of the object is
> beam with the spongy medulla removed. The 'lip' to the side is formed from
> the base of a tine where it branched from the main beam.
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> Sonia
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> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University
> of York
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Archaeological Sciences
> Division of AGES
> University of Bradford
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
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> Tel 01274 236498
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> *From:* Bonetools <bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu> on behalf of Marta
> Moreno García <marta.moreno at cchs.csic.es>
> *Sent:* 24 September 2018 14:50
> *To:* Bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> *Subject:* [Bonetools] help with material identification
>
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> Dear all,
>
> a medievalist colleague of mine asked me to help her with the
> identification of the material the object below is made of. This is a small
> box dated to the Middle Ages that it is presently housed in the monastery
> of San Isodoro, León, Spain. The measurements are as follow:
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> Base at longest point: 57mm
>
> Metal top diameter: 34mm
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> Height (antler only): 44mm
>
> By the elongated shape of the top we thought it was made of antler but I
> am not sure. What do you think? Any ideas? Do you know of any parallels?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Marta
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