<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Deat Steve,</DIV>
<DIV>I just came upon this old email of yours. I am researching bone tanning tools with a long edge, which are held with both hands in order to clean hides layed over a wooden beam. Do your artifacts show some use wear of the edges,for example polishing or scratches perpendicular to the long axis?</DIV>
<DIV>My experience shows that such split bones could make very servicable beaming tools.</DIV>
<DIV>Attached my article on such bone tools.</DIV>
<DIV>Greetings from Germany,</DIV>
<DIV>Markus Klek<BR><BR>--- spa105@york.ac.uk <I><spa105@york.ac.uk></I></B> schrieb am <B>Fr, 26.3.2010:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>Von: spa105@york.ac.uk <spa105@york.ac.uk><BR>Betreff: [Bonetools] Early medieval worked 'split' longbones<BR>An: "'Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.'" <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><BR>Datum: Freitag, 26. März, 2010 14:29 Uhr<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Dear all,<BR><BR>I'm looking at a worked bone assemblage from an early medieval monastic site<BR>in Scotland. I have some pieces of miscellanea that are baffling me a<BR>little; they appear to be long bones (B tibia and equis mp) that have been<BR>split longitudinally, but not in the rudimentary way we see for the<BR>extraction of marrow - they are very straight-sided, producing low 'tray'<BR>like objects, that if I stretch my imagination remind me a little of<BR>crucibles. If anyone has seen anything like this before, think that I am<BR>missing something obvious or can provide any insight whatsoever, I'd be very<BR>pleased to hear from you.<BR><BR>I attach photographs of the better examples.<BR><BR>Many thanks<BR><BR>Steve Ashby<BR></DIV><BR>-----Integrierter Anhang folgt-----<BR><BR>
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