Hello, Steve, <br><br>tell your colleague to check out "Excavations at Grimes Graves, Norfolk, fasc 1: Neolithic antler picks", by Juliette Clutton-Brock. <br>These picks look very much the same, judging from the photo. <br>
Similar picks were found in copper mine Rudna Glava from late Vinča culture in eastern Serbia, that is - similar in shape, but I can't tell anything about wear traces. <br>The main difference, however, is that this particular pick of yours/ of your colleague has really large shaft hole. <br>
But, basically, I think these type of large antler picks are widely known - as to the association with a burial, perhaps it was used to make it? Or its pieces were already in deposit and dispersed during the digging of the burial? <br>
Anyway, if your colleague can come up with some ideas about the use, please ask her to share them. <br>best, selena <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2010 13:18, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spa105@york.ac.uk">spa105@york.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Here’s that pic of an antler pick. Not sure why it didn’t
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The </span>attached object was found in
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neo/EBA crouched burial, during the 2009 season of excavation at Sedgeford, NW
Norfolk. The break between the pieces from the different contexts is clearly
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