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Dear Anne,<br>
It looks very nice and probably it is a pendant. Estonian pendants are
dated to the last quarter of first millennium AD. In Estonia all of them
are found from settlement sites or hillforts, but in northwestern Russia
some are found from graves also.<br>
Best wishes,<br>
Heidi<br><br>
At 12:14 27.10.2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2 color="#000080">I
strongly suspect that some of the Orkney small combs are also pendants
but I’m not sure about all of them.<br>
<br>
I attach an image of one of our likely pendants, not as nice as the
Estonian version! Unfortunately it eroded out at the coast and thus has
no context, but the general quality would be right for the mid to late
first millennium AD. Sorry for the lack of a scale, it’s about 20-25mm
wide.<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
Anne<br>
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Luik<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2009 08:36<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
I send some pictures of Estonian miniature combs. To my opinion these
(from Estonia and northwest Russia) are at first pendants, having some
symbolic meaning. I suppose all of them were not used for combing at all.
But some of them were, e.g. pendant from Pada with use wear on its teeth.
<br>
About wear on the comb teeth, I suppose that long hair will leave more
traces on the comb. As an "experiment" (not very seriously, but
just for fun) I add a picture of comb teeth with wear traces. It is not a
bone comb, but plastic one (actually my own). It has been used about 8-9
years, I have all this time had a hair about until shoulders or a little
longer. It has quite clear wear on the base of teeth. As a comparison I
can say that my husband's comb (he has short hair) does not have such
wear, but my son’s (who has hair longer than me), also has similar use
wear at the base of teeth. <br>
<br>
Best greetings,<br>
Heidi<br><br>
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At 16:48 26.10.2009, you wrote:<br><br>
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</font><font size=2 color="#000080">The comb is listed as antler in the
report, but I am interested to hear other opinions. Anyone passing
through Kirkwall, do drop in!<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Re small combs, where does the idea of ‘beard combs’ come from? <br>
<br>
Anne<br>
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<font size=2 color="#1F497D">What is it made from in your opinion
Alice? Palmate antler? It looks like whale bone but I can’t quite
make it out from the pictures of the edge.<br>
<br>
Sonia<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 26 October 2009 09:33<br>
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<font size=2 color="#000080">Hi Alice,<br>
<br>
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 Orkney
Museum (as distinct from miniatures), but this one has a very very close
parallel from Kettleburn in Caithness, and I’m wondering how many more
there may be. <br>
<br>
If anyone is interested, the full excavation report for Howe is available
online thanks to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
<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.<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
Anne<br>
<br>
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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>
Alice<br><br>
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