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<div>Dear all,</div><div><br></div><div>following up a request by Michael Olausson that has already been sent to the list by Alice last week (see below) I would like to add that the tool is now permanently visible for further discussion on the Mystery bone tool page of the WBRG website at </div><div><a href="http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20">http://www.wbrg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=20</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Christian</div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div>Dear All,</div> <div> I am forwarding a letter and photo from a Swedish colleague. Another strange tool. It looks like some part of a mechanism - a locking mechanism? However Michael Olausson also says it has some resemblances to a tool used by the Sami for producing tin thread! If you reply to Michael could you also please CC the list so we can all read about it?</div> <div> </div> <div>Alice<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Olausson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.olausson673@gmail.com">michael.olausson673@gmail.com</a>></span><br> Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 AM<br>Subject: A strange antler tool<br>To: <a href="mailto:h13017cho@helka.iif.hu">h13017cho@helka.iif.hu</a><br><br><br>Dear Dr. Alice Choyke,<br>Dr Kordula Gostencnik suggested that I should contact You in this<br> matter. I will send You my letter to her as well with the picture of<br>the item. Dr Gostencnik dod´t regard the toll as one conected to<br>textil handcraft. She suggestes that it might be a toy, I do not agree<br>with her, if it should look like a "bear" then it should be made as a<br> bear! Since there are three differnt kinds of "measurements" of the<br>teeth, I radaer would thinkt that it has been used to make threads ore<br>to measure threads. We have a little discussion in Stockholm if it<br> could be used for metal, silver and gold.<br>The tool wich has many similarties with a Roman antler key, was found<br>in mixed layers on a house terrace on the hilltop site,<br>"Höhensiedlung" Runsa frpm the 5th & 6th centuries.<br> <br>It would be nice if You could have some ideas, references.<br><br>Yours Sincerely<br><font color="#888888">Michael Olausson<br>ass.prof<br></font></div><br><img src="cid:45630383-A35B-4841-A095-701A37051658@local"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bonetools mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a></div> </body></html>