[Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb

[Hans Christian Küchelmann]

Dear Renáta,

I would suggest to start with the publications of Steve Ashby and Kristina Ambrosiani about the typology of medieval combs (see below). Otherwise there are a lot of references about comb finds in the  reference database on the WBRG-website. Go to https://www.wbrg.net/references , chose the keyword search and tick „comb“ and whatever else you regard as appropriate keywords.

Best

Christian

# Ambrosiani, Kristina (1981): Viking Age combs, Comb Making and Comb Makers in the Light of Finds from Birka and Ribe, Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 2, Stockholm

# Ashby, Steven P. (2011): An Atlas of Medieval Combs from Northern Europe. – Internet Archaeology 30
>>> online: http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue30/ashby_index.html

# Ashby, Steven P. (2011): The Language of the Combmaker: interpreting complexity in Viking-Age Industry. in: Baron, Justyna & Kufel-Diakowska, Bernadeta (eds.): Written in Bones. Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains, 9-23, Wroclaw

# Ashby, Steven P. (2010): A Typological Guide for the Spot-Identification of Medieval Bone/Antler Combs from the British Isles and Northern Europe, Unpublished Datasheet of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group
>>> download: http://www.wbrg.net/images/stories/typology/ashby_comb_typology_2010.pdf

# Ashby, Steven P. (2007): Bone and antler combs. – Finds Research Group AD700-1700 40, 1-8

# Ashby, Steven P. (2005): Bone and antler combs: Towards a methodolgy for the understanding of trade and identity in Viking Age England and Scotland. in: Luik, Heidi / Choyke, Alice M. / Batey, Colleen / Lougas, Lembi (eds.): From Hooves to Horns, from Mollusc to Mammoth – Manufacture and Use of Bone Artefacts from Prehistoric Times to the Present – Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group at Tallinn, 26th–31st of August 2003, Muinasaja teadus 15, 255-262, Tallinn

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> Am 11.04.2022 um 17:33 schrieb Renáta Přichystalová <svecova at phil.muni.cz>:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to ask you for help with my searching of analogy to the antler comb from site Pohansko near Břeclav (CZ).
> This is early medieval stronghold (9th - first half of 10th cen.). The comb was found in 3 pieces above the remains of christian church - a rotunda.
> There is an article about this rotunda is there: in journal Památky archeologické from 2014:
> https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV
> 
> According my investigation: the comb we can assign to the group IB, type VII (variety 9a or 9c) or type VIII (variety 4) - classification according to Eugeniusz Cnotliwy 1973: Rzemioslo rogownicze na Pomorzu wcześniośredniowiecznym. This king of a comb is dated in the turn of the 9th and 10th century AD.
> According to fig. 28 in the monograph of A. Chmielowska (1971) - it could be the comb of group IB, type 9, variety e - dated since 11th to 13th century AD.
> (titel: Grzebiene starozytne i średniowieczne z ziem polskich).
> 
> Please, does anybody know about some similar finding?
> 
> I will be thankful for any information.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Renáta P.
> 
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> Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D.
> Department of Archaeology and Museology
> Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
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> CZ-602 00 Brno
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