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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The comb is listed as antler in the report,
but I am interested to hear other opinions. Anyone passing through Kirkwall, do
drop in!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I don’t know the eastern European
small and miniature combs, I think Steve and Julia may be some of the very few
people who have seen them and the Orcadian combs. Arthur Macgregor’s 1985
account (p.78) predates the discovery of several of the small combs in this
museum, and I think the overall interpretation may be different now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Re small combs, where does the idea of ‘beard
combs’ come from? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>S O'Connor<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 October 2009 13:17<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Mailing list for
archaeologists of the research group for the study ofobject and waste of
bone,antler. ivory and horn.'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] bone tool
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>What is it
made from in your opinion <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alice</st1:place></st1:City>?
Palmate antler? It looks like whale bone but I can’t quite make it out
from the pictures of the edge.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Anne Brundle<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 26 October 2009 09:33<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mailing list for
archaeologists of the research group for thestudy of object and waste of bone,
antler. ivory and horn.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] bone tool
of the month<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Alice,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Many apologies, here is a comb that is
interesting me at the moment. It is from the broch at Howe in Stromness, and is
described as ‘found in ditch deposits’ dating to the early
centuries AD (Ballin Smith (ed) 1994, 177). This is one of three single-sided one-piece
combs in the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Orkney</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> (as distinct from miniatures), but this one
has a very very close parallel from Kettleburn in <st1:place w:st="on">Caithness</st1:place>,
and I’m wondering how many more there may be. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If anyone is interested, the full
excavation report for Howe is available online thanks to the Society of
Antiquaries of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
<a href="http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/monograph09.cfm">http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/monograph09.cfm</a>
, and the comb’s catalogue number is HH 4907.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anne<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Alice Choyke<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 25 October 2009 17:33<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Bonetools] bone tool of
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear colleagues,<br>
I am still waiting for all those amazing
pictures of bone tool of the month for 2010. I need twelve and at the moment
only two of you have responded with any pictures. It can be an all Hungarian
year but that would be a pity.<br>
<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alice</st1:place></st1:City><br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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