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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'>Interesting! No parallels known to us from
Orkney, either in archaeology or in Social History. Have you tried NMS, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Highland</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Folk</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
or the township at Auchindrain? Or possibly <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Marischal</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Aberdeen</st1:place></st1:City>? The D-shaped cross-section of the
handle, and the irregularity of the carving, has me thinking about anthropology
more than archaeology.<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'>Anne<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu [mailto:bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">spa105@york.ac</st1:PersonName>.uk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 11 January 2010 15:23<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> [Bonetools] FW: Happy
Christmas Spoon</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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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'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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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'>Happy new
year. I’ve just received the following informal enquiry about
a (presumably modern) bone spoon – could anyone identify a close
parallel/date/context? It’s probably of most interest to anyone
with a Scottish social history bent.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><br>
Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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Forwarded message ----------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(really
for Steve, as I know you are into things old and bony)</span></font><font
color="#1f497d"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Have
just been staying with inlaws in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>; was given this to stir my
tea with; puzzled. It was inherited from a previous generation, who were
farmers in Perthshire…that is all that is known.????</span></font><font
color="#1f497d"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All
the best<font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:#1F497D'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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size=2 color="#888888" face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:#888888'>Peter Ryder</span></font><font color="#888888"><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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