Maybe Iron Age cheek pieces but I promise you the 'classic' cheekpieces or bridle bit holders from the Middle and Late Bronze Age look NOTHING like this.<br><br>Alice<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Steven Ashby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spa105@york.ac.uk">spa105@york.ac.uk</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;">I have seen these before, though I'm afraid I can't say where. They<br>
don't seem to be in Arthur MacGregor's 1985 book, so they may not be<br>
common in the UK. That said, given that they seem familiar, it is<br>
probably at Viking-Age sites- you could check Hedeby, for instance, as<br>
well as Birka and Novgorod.<br>
<br>
I'm in broad agreement with Heidi, I think - cheekpiece was my first guess.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Heidi Luik <<a href="mailto:heidi.luik@mail.ee">heidi.luik@mail.ee</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear Sarah,<br>
><br>
> This artefact resembles some antler artefacts from Estonian sites, but I am<br>
> not sure about the function of these objects. I have discussed some<br>
> possibilities of their function in one my article, but it is in Estonian<br>
> (Luik, H. 2001. Luuesemed Kuusalu Pajulinnast ja asulatest. Eesti<br>
> Arheoloogia Ajakiri / Journal of Estonian Archaeology, 5, 1, 3–36).<br>
> From Estonia we have only four examples, all dated to the Viking Age<br>
> (800-1050 AD), three of them from Kuusalu settlement site and one from Iila<br>
> cemetery (the drawing of artefacts from Kuusalu is in the attachment).<br>
> Comparable artefacts are discussed e.g. in Ambrosiani, K. 1981. Viking Age<br>
> Combs, Comb Making and Comb Makers in the Light of Finds from Birka and<br>
> Ribe. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology, 2. Stockholm, p. 139, fig. 89.<br>
> Kristina Ambrosiani has supposed that these items could have been used as<br>
> weaving tools (Ambrosiani 1981, fig 89: 4). But I do not think it is so.<br>
> About Estonian artefacts such use maybe could be possible for one of them,<br>
> found from Iila, which is quite thin and small, but other examples, found<br>
> from Kuusalu, are too thick (diameter 2-2,5 cm) for such use. One Estonian<br>
> archaeologist, Ain Mäesalu, was quite certain that they should be parts of<br>
> bow terminals, but I do not believe it (probably it is not possible to fix<br>
> them enough firmly for such purpose).<br>
> One possiblity is that they could be element of horse equipment (so called<br>
> cheek pieces). I have seen one such object also in Novgorod Museum, and<br>
> Lyuba Smirnova, who has studied bone artefacts of Novgorod, was also in<br>
> opinion that it is part of bridles. Antler parts of horse bridles are known<br>
> e.g. from Lithuania (dated to 11.-14. centuries; Kulikauskiene, R. &<br>
> Rimantiene, R. 1966. Lietuvu liaudies menas. Senoves Lietuvu papuosalai, II.<br>
> Vilnius), but they are little different in shape, sometimes they have one<br>
> pointed tip, another end could be just wider (but these wider ends are not<br>
> hollowed as in Estonian (and your) objects) or sometimes animal head shaped,<br>
> but some of them have both ends pointed. I guess, maybe these hollowed<br>
> pieces could be parts of some composite cheek pieces, but it is just only an<br>
> assumption.<br>
><br>
> All best wishes,<br>
> Heidi<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> At 22:09 10.05.2010, you wrote:<br>
><br>
> Dear all,<br>
> I got this letter from Sarah Wilson about what looks to me to be<br>
> something from red deer antler tine. We have such things from the Bronze Age<br>
> on in Hungary but Britain is a closed book to me. She seems to think the<br>
> object is medieval. When you reply please write to both Sarah and the list<br>
> so we can see the solution together.<br>
><br>
> Best,<br>
> Alice<br>
><br>
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> Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:26 PM<br>
> Subject: Unusual find<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:h13017cho@helka.iif.hu">h13017cho@helka.iif.hu</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Dear Alice,<br>
><br>
> I am the Collections Officer at Peterborough Museum in Cambridgeshire<br>
> England and am responsible for the archaeology collection. The museum team<br>
> are currently working on a medieval exhibition. As a result I have been<br>
> searching through the museum’s collection for relevant objects. During this<br>
> search I came across a piece of worked bone found in Peterborough in the<br>
> late 19th century described as a medieval curved needle or awl – haft end<br>
> flattened and perforated, and with groove cut across the implement below<br>
> haft. It is 4.8” long.<br>
><br>
> The finds officer for Cambridgeshire suggested talking to Ian Riddler<br>
> however I cannot find a contact email for him and wondered if you had one or<br>
> were able to suggest someone else. I would love to know whether it is in<br>
> fact medieval and what it was used for.<br>
><br>
> Any help or advice you can offer is appreciated.<br>
><br>
> Best Wishes,<br>
><br>
> Sarah<br>
><br>
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