<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Hello Tuukka,<br><br>Looking at both sides of your object, I have some doubts concerning the material. Are you sure it is made in bone and not in antler? <br>If it is an antler artefact, it looks like a piece of a bit (see attached document as an example). Or a hinge as proposed by David<br>Good luck<br>Jacqueline<br><br><br>
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<br><br><font color="#990099">-----bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu a écrit : -----</font><div style="padding-left:5px;"><div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;border-left:solid black 2px;">A : "bonetools@listserv.niif.hu" <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu><br>De : Tuukka Kumpulainen <thkump@utu.fi><br>Envoyé par : bonetools-bounces@listserv.niif.hu<br>Date : 26/06/2013 19:40<br>Objet : [Bonetools] A bone flute from South-Central Finland? Suggestions? Analogies?<br><br><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2">Hello everyone,<br><br>Today at rescue excavations at the Tursiannotko multi-period (Viking Age - 19th Century) site in Pirkkala, South-Central Finland a fragment of a beautiful, hollow, perforated bone artefact was found from a mixed-deposit context. The best suggestion for its function so far is a musical instrument, ie. a bone flute. I'm turning to the expertise of the collective WBRG in hope of alternative or confirmative interpretations of the artefact, as well as any possible analogies in the archaeological collections of osseous artefacts in Europe.<br><br>I apologise for the mediocre field photos of the find.<br><br>Thank you in advance,<br><br>Tuukka Kumpulainen<br>University of Turku<br>Finland</font></div><div><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="2">_______________________________________________<br>Bonetools mailing list<br>Bonetools@listserv.niif.hu<br><a href="https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools">https://listserv.niif.hu/mailman/listinfo/bonetools</a><br></font></div></thkump@utu.fi></div><br><br>[pièce jointe "20130626_111631-1.jpg" supprimée par Jacqueline Studer/mhn/ville-ge]<br>[pièce jointe "20130626_123308-1.jpg" supprimée par Jacqueline Studer/mhn/ville-ge]</div><div></div></font>