<div>Dear Jacqui,</div><div> It might also be useful to move this discussion to the worked bone mailing list incase someone else has seen something similar. Write to the mailing list at <<a href="mailto:bonetools@listserv.niif.hu">bonetools@listserv.niif.hu</a>>.</div>
<div> </div><div>Alice <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Jacqui Mulville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MulvilleJA@cardiff.ac.uk">MulvilleJA@cardiff.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Zooarchers, </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I have just looked at a group of cremations
from the entrance graves on the Isles of Scilly for a RC dating project
(probably Bronze Age - but no dates) and we found a number of small sheep
tibia gouges/pins. These were from tiny individuals, a number had
the distal end intact with the shaft worked to an open point. The artefacts
were calcined. They accompanied four cremations in one tomb with a number
more recorded from another (the majority of tomb contents from the isles
are unfortunately lost). Does anyone know of parallels? </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">One individual was accompanied by faience
and glass beads. The burning of the pins/gouges suggests they were burnt
with the individuals, however they were much less fragmented than the human
bone? Were they treated differently? Were they dress pins? </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any sheep/human cremation parallels
from prehistory welcome. </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best wishes</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Small pic of one pin/gouge on facebook
page - </font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Jacqui Mulville (PhD),<br>
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