Dear Lena - and to add to what François suggests - if this circular edge is an active edge then you really need to send an acetate strip copy of it to someone who studies micro-use wear on bone because clay should leave a different signature from leather for example. I could imagine that if this is a tool used to make a repeated circle ornament it could also have been used to incise designs on leather or bark! I need hardly add that France has a number of very talented specialists in bone use wear so you don't very far to go.<br>
<br>Alice<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, François Poplin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:poplin@mnhn.fr">poplin@mnhn.fr</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;">
Dear Miss,<br>
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my very first impression is.. don't you have any circular impression on ware, clay, etc. ?<br>
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Your's.<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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I have the distal half of a sheep femur from a Bronze Age deposit at a site just outside London. I'm not so good at prehistoric worked bone, and I hope you could help me identify its function.<br>
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The bone has been sawn off horisontally at mid-shaft. The edge is smooth (with an exception for a jagged part of the lateral side). Unfortunately the bone surface is badly eroded, and I can't tell whether there have been any polished areas on the shaft itself.<br>
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<a href="http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/A13MoversLane-cxt5158-Sheepfemur1_5.jpg" target="_blank">http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/ossamentaDW/Benbilder/A13MoversLane-cxt5158-Sheepfemur1_5.jpg</a><br>
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Let me know if you need more photos.<br>
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thanks in advance<br>
/Lena<br>
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