<p>Does anyone have a copy of the Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995 article?</p><div> </div><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:33 PM, <a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net">trzaska@lineone.net</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trzaska@lineone.net" target="_blank">trzaska@lineone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><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">Fire blackening of antler to assist in removing the tines has been suggested on a number occasions<br>
in England, mainly for neolithic material. The illustrations here are not very good (my apologies<br>
!) but they show an antler from a neolithic context, recovered from an important site at<br>
Trumpington in Cambridgeshire, which has been fire blackened around the junction with the trez<br>
tine, and also along the beam. The suggestion is that localised charring of antler, undertaken<br>
probably with a wooden brand, was commonly used as a working technique at this time (Clutton-Brock<br>
1984, 26; Serjeantson and Gardiner 1995, 420-1). It made the antler more brittle and easier to<br>
separate. The same technique can also be seen on some Neolithic bone objects (Senepart 1985,<br>
39).<br>
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These are old studies of course but they might be useful. Trumpington will be published in a few<br>
years time.<br>
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Clutton-Brock, J., 1984 Neolithic Antler Picks from Grimes Graves, Norfolk and Durrington Walls,<br>
Wiltshire: a Biometrical Analysis, London<br>
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Senepart, I., 1985 L’industrie osseuse cardiale de Provence, in H. Camps-Fabrer, L’industrie en Os<br>
et Bois de Cervidés durant le Néolithique et l’Age des Métaux 3, Paris, 37-43<br>
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Serjeantson, D. and Gardiner, J., 1995 Antler Implements and Ox Scapulae Shovels and Animal Bone,<br>
in R. M. J. Cleal, K. E. Walker and R. Montague, Stonehenge and its Landscape: Twentieth Century<br>
Excavations, English Heritage Archaeological Report 10, London, 414-30 and 437-51<br>
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Ian Riddler<br>
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