<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately I cannot make any cuts on the right black part of the artefact. But I attach microphotographs of the surface, taken both in the middle and in the area of right end. It seems that there is any coating and the black something is something else (birch bark tar was in use in the Middle Ages in this region). As you can see the entire surface is highly polished and all edges are heavily rounded, apart from the surface of “negatives” on the right black end – there are scraping/whittling? traces perpendicular to the main axis of the artefact, but only on one side.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Best,</font></font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Bernadeta</font></font></span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>dr Bernadeta Kufel-Diakowska<br>Pracownia Archeometrii i Konserwacji Zabytków Archeologicznych<br>
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