Dear Noelle,<br> what kind of contexts were these objects found in: in houses, outbuildings pits etc. Does their surface suggest they fell off something after site abandonment or were they buried quickly. That might give a hint about how they were used. They must be very frustating objects to study because they look like they were very useful, common and obvious things.Any people out there with Celtic or early medieval analogies out there?<br>
<br>Alice<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Noelle Provenzano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noprovenzano@interfree.it">noprovenzano@interfree.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">I would really appreciate if anyone could point me to
some analogies about these objects :</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">They are made with a central beam longitudinally bipartited
(splited) and come from Second Iron Age of South of France. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The
lower side is just regularized and doesn’t show any other usewear traces.
The superior side is natural. The two laterals holes present strong
deformations (but irregularly distributed and directed) due to the cross of a
flexible bond, the central perforation doesn’t show always so many usewear
traces.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">If someone has an idea…. Thanks a lot !</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Noelle</span></font></p>
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